Little Dieter Needs To Fly

Known Unknowns film season
Part of Arnolfini's Old Media season, this season of films and videos focuses on the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them. The lines between documentary and fiction, acting and being, thought and moving images, become fuzzy; suggesting that cinema has become a prosthetics for our memories, subjectivities and doubts.

Film

Fri 13 Aug, 6.30pm

£6.00/£4.50 Concs

With typical brilliance and idiosyncrasy Herzog persuades a former US pilot who was shot down over Vietnam to return to the jungle sites of his capture and internment to retell and restage the unbelievable details of his horrific experience, all the while being harassed by AK-47-brandishing Vietnamese actors.

Dir. Werner Herzog France/UK/Germany 1997 1h 20m

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