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Land of Silence and Darkness (‹See Tfd› German: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit) is a 1971 documentary film about deaf-blind people and their experience of life. The film was written, directed, and produced by Werner Herzog. Rolf Illig provided narration.
Apr 5, 2012 · This chapter contains sections titled: Post-Neo-Romantic Post-Auteur Herzog. Herzog becomes Herzog. Land of Silence and Darkness. Touching-Feeling, Seeing the Haptic (Blind) Visionaries as Theme. The Isolation of Silence and the Prison of Language. Conclusion: Three Levels of Visual Alterity. Works Cited
- Randall Halle
- 2012
Jul 17, 2005 · If Fata Morgana used light, wind, panoramic vistas, gypsy music, and visual repetition for hallucinatory effect, the documentary Silence and Darkness strips away practically all audio-visual adornments in deference to its subject matter: the middle-aged Fini Straubinger, a sweet-natured German woman who went both deaf and bind in her teen years ...
Werner Herzog’s 1971 documentary film Land of Silence and Darkness (German: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit) addresses precisely this philosophical problem by focusing on the way in which deaf and blind people experience life and communicate with each other and with sighted people.
Feb 11, 2008 · The land of silence and darkness is inside the heads of the film's subjects, several deaf and blind persons. Except that as the main figure in the movie, Fini Straubinger, says early on: there is neither silence nor darkness in her life.
Synopsis. Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew.
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog / West Germany, 1971): ( Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit ) Inner and outer space, in the realm of the senses.
