Event

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

POST-FILM DISCUSSION with Michael Balter, archeology/human evolution writer for "Science," one of the world's leading science magazines

Legendary director Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Encounters At the End of the World) takes us deep inside the Chauvet Cave of Southern France to the world's oldest known cave paintings: hundreds of 32,000-year-old, astonishingly pristine and realistic drawings of horses, cattle and lions. Herzog's narration and interviews with the cave's researchers tell us about the creators of this breathtaking Paleolithic art and reflect on humans' primal desire to represent the world around us and ponder our place within it.

Directed by Werner Herzog
With Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes
France/Canada/USA/UK/Germany, 2010, 90 minutes, documentary, English, German and French, with English subtitles. Unrated