Werner Herzog will receive Golden Lion for Lifetime at 82th Venice International Film Festival In August.
“I feel deeply honored to have a lifetime performance honors Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale. I have always tried to be a good film soldier, and it feels like a medal for my work. Thank you,” the director said in a statement on Tuesday. “But I have not retired. I work as always. A few weeks ago I just finished a documentary in Africa,”Ghost elephants‘And right now I’m shooting my next feature film, ‘Bucking Fastard‘In Ireland. I develop an animated film, based on my novel, ‘Twilight World‘And I act as the voice for a creature in Bong Joon-Ho’s upcoming animated film. I’m not done yet. “
La Biennale Board Herzog chose according to the recommendation from VFF Artistic Director Alberto Barbera.
“A physical filmmaker and endless hiker, Werner Herzog constantly crosses the planet and strives for hitherto invisible images, tests our ability to look, challenge us to understand what is outside reality and investigate the boundaries of cinematic representation in an unspoilt search for a higher, ecstatic truth and new sensory experiences. “Estabishing himself as one of the Major Innovators of New Germany Cinema with Films Such as’ Signs of Life, ” Nosferatu The Vampyre, ” Aguirre, The Wrath of God, ” Fitzcarraldo, ” Bad Lieutenant, ‘Port of Call’ Male ‘Male’ Testing the Limits of the Film Language, illumination the traditional distinction between Documentary and Fiction, and at the same time suggest a radical investigation of communication subjects, the relationship between images and music and of nature’s endless beauty and its inevitable corruption. “
“Herzog’s career is both fascinating and dangerous because it involves total commitment and sits on the line to the physical risk, where disaster is constantly lurking,” he continued. “A brilliant narrator of unusual stories, Herzog is also the last heir of the great tradition of German romance, a visionary humanist and an tireless explorer who is dedicated to eternal hike, in search (as he said) ‘of a decent and fitting place for humanity, a landscape of the soul.” “
Other Former recipient of this honor Include David Cronenberg, Jane Fonda, Julie Andrews, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Redford, Tim Burton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hayao Miyazaki and most recently Peter Weir and Sigourney Weaver in 2024.
2025 Venice Film Festival will take place on the Italian island of Lido di Venezia from 27-September. 6.
