The Worlds of Werner Herzog

9 Jun 2007 – 1 Jul 2007

Since the start of his film career in the mid 1960s, director Werner Herzog has taken his own, very personal journey through a range of themes, characters and locations to create a filmography that is like no one else's.

Having made almost fifty features and documentaries, the director's profile is currently the highest it's been since the 1970s, thanks to two relatively mainstream recent films - the documentary Grizzly Man and the new Christian Bale action-adventure Rescue Dawn. That populist pair offers only a glimpse at what he's been up to lately, however: this small season of recent work shows you more of the world through Werner's eyes.

Grizzly Man

9 Jun 2007 – 28 Jun 2007

Herzog's ode to obsessed animal-rights activist Timothy Treadwell becomes a disquieting exploration of our uneasy relationship with the natural world.

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Fitzcarraldo

10 Jun 2007 – 30 Jun 2007

The ludicrous, legendary tale of a man obsessed, this is the great film that spawned a thousand terrifying behind-the-scenes stories.

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The Wild Blue Yonder

15 Jun 2007 – 1 Jul 2007

Herzog mixes documentary footage with an alien fantasy for a lyrical, haunting and often amusing look at space travel.

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Wheel of Time

16 Jun 2007 – 26 Jun 2007

Buddhist monks are ordained on a mountain in Tibet and in an Austrian exhibition hall in Herzog's beautifully observed documentary.

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

17 Jun 2007 – 30 Jun 2007

US Air Force pilot Dieter Dengler returns to the jungles where he survived as a POW during Vietnam in this astonishing documentary.

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The White Diamond

21 Jun 2007 – 1 Jul 2007

Floating over a rainforest in Guyana, Herzog looks for rare animals and plants, and finds a fascinating combination of images, characters, places and ideas.

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