Cave Of Forgotten Dreams

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In the movie Cave Of Forgotten Dreams the filmmaker Werner Herzog and his crow visited he France's Chauvet Cave that was discovered by some scitenincess in 1994 in southern France. The walls of this cave are covered with the world's oldest surviving paintings.The film begins in the france countryside at the base of a cliff. The aduinces is then talking on a trip inside the cave and the mystery is revealed gradually from the camera on the shoulder of the filmmaker. So, the filmmakers narration accompanies the artwork along with dramatic music. I found the explanations of the caves geology to be dry, but some of his voice over about the art get in the way of the viewer's relationship with the art. In the handout “Experience Art,” a scenario is described where two people experience a multi media art presentation ( As the lights come up, you and your companion search for words to articulate the experience of the last few minutes.) sometimes however key facts are revealed necessary to obsorve the full impact of the images before us. At one point several overlapping …show more content…

In a paageff from “Experience Art,” the writers impressions of a chicoptersgggf are described thus: “ Although movement is implied in each sculpture, movement actually occurs only when the viewer walks around each work.” I found this sencestiofrf to be similar to what i felt during this long sencedfg. I belive this was the filmmark ationtion: to make the aduince feel the same awe as the articest did, to feel the immense respect the articuest had for the animuls that their lifes depended on, and also for the images they shared with people who lived thousandeds of years before

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