A dense cloud of flies and a plague of horseflies swirl around my head, so I’m forced to flail about with my arms, yet they pursue me bloodthirstily nevertheless. For Herzog, walking was an exercise in magical thinking. Utter blissfulness is spreading, and out of utter blissfulness now springs the Absurdity. In 1974, when he was 32, acclaimed film director, writer, and producer Herzog (Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo, 2010, etc.) set out on foot from Munich to Paris with the goal of saving a dying friend, the film critic and poet Lotte Eisner. Systems of Milky Ways have condensed into Un-stars. The universe is filled with Nothing, it is the Yawning Black Void. Light can no longer escape, even the profoundest blackness would seem like light and the silence would seem like thunder. Unimaginable stellar catastrophes take place, entire worlds collapse into a single point.
In the pitch-blackness of the universe the wheels are glowing, the lone car is glowing. The train moves, it moves into fathomless space, unwavering.
They decide to move on, to hasten, to race. The train stops, men try to extinguish it, but the car can no longer be extinguished. The audio in this show is a recording of a live event that took place at Stanford University on May 7, 2019. A train races through the land and penetrates the mountain range. In this episode filmmaker and author Werner Herzog discusses his remarkable book 'Of Walking in Ice', first published in 1978. On the orange-colored plain below I can see sheets of rain, and the annunciation of the end of the world is glowing on the horizon, glimmering there. The book is about Herzog’s journey from Germany to France. Uncannily, though, in the midst of all this, a fire is blazing, lit, in fact, with petrol. ‘On Walking in Ice’ is a book written by the filmmaker and director Werner Herzog. Of Walking in Ice, his account of his walk. It is a weird and wonderful documenta vital record of Herzog’s creation of his famous, baffling self. Werner Herzog is writing a book about Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender after the end of the second world war. No one, not a soul, intimidating stillness. Titled Of Walking in Ice, it’s now being reissued by the University of Minnesota Press. The English translation of Herzog’s haunting and beautifully written text has just been republished by the University of Minnesota press, and Bookforum has an excerpt. Herzog’s friend and mentor, film critic Lotte Eisner, was dying in Paris, and Herzog believed that the act of walking could save her. Werner Herzog’s book Of Walking on Ice, originally published in German in 1978, documents a three-week walking journey he took from Munich to Paris in the winter of 1974.
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