Lessons of Darkness : Fata Morgana

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Lessons of darkness (1992, 50 min.) -- Fata Morgana (1971, 76 min.).
Lessons of darkness: A stirring documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers. What resulted is less a simple documentary about an environmental catastrophe than an apocalyptic vision of hell, a strangely beautiful portrait of a world on fire. Fata Morgana: Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images of the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh, set to songs of Leonard Cohen.
DVD ; wide screen.
Contents: Songs.

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Very Disturbing submitted by btmiller on March 14, 2007, 12:48pm I found this to be very disturbing. Not enjoyable.

B Miller