Press release
On behalf of IFC Films
Werner Herzog's
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
Opens in April 29. 2011
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, the breathtaking new documentary from Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog (ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, GRIZZLY MAN).
The film follows Herzog’s exclusive expedition into the highly guarded Chauvet Cave in France, home of the most ancient and inaccessible pictorial artwork known to have been created by man. A hit at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and the opening night film of the inaugural DOC NYC Festival, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS will open theatrically in late April.
For over 20,000 years, Chauvet Cave has been completely sealed off by a fallen rock face, its crystal-encrusted interior as large as a football field and strewn with the petrified remains of giant ice age mammals. In 1994, scientists discovered the caverns, and found hundreds of pristine paintings within, spectacular artwork dating back over 30,000 years (almost twice as old as any previous finds) to a time when Neanderthals still roamed the earth and cave bears, mammoths, and ice age lions were the dominant populations of Europe.
Since then, only a handful of specialists have stepped foot in the cave, and the true scope of its contents had largely gone unfelt—until Werner Herzog managed to gain access. Filming in 3D, Herzog captures the wonder and beauty of one of the most awe-inspiring sites on earth, all the while musing in his inimitable fashion about its original inhabitants, the birth of art, and the curious people surrounding the caves today.
90 minutes. In 3D.
An IFC Films release. Not rated.
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On behalf of IFC Films
Werner Herzog's
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
Opens in April 29. 2011
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, the breathtaking new documentary from Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog (ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, GRIZZLY MAN).
The film follows Herzog’s exclusive expedition into the highly guarded Chauvet Cave in France, home of the most ancient and inaccessible pictorial artwork known to have been created by man. A hit at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and the opening night film of the inaugural DOC NYC Festival, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS will open theatrically in late April.
For over 20,000 years, Chauvet Cave has been completely sealed off by a fallen rock face, its crystal-encrusted interior as large as a football field and strewn with the petrified remains of giant ice age mammals. In 1994, scientists discovered the caverns, and found hundreds of pristine paintings within, spectacular artwork dating back over 30,000 years (almost twice as old as any previous finds) to a time when Neanderthals still roamed the earth and cave bears, mammoths, and ice age lions were the dominant populations of Europe.
Since then, only a handful of specialists have stepped foot in the cave, and the true scope of its contents had largely gone unfelt—until Werner Herzog managed to gain access. Filming in 3D, Herzog captures the wonder and beauty of one of the most awe-inspiring sites on earth, all the while musing in his inimitable fashion about its original inhabitants, the birth of art, and the curious people surrounding the caves today.
90 minutes. In 3D.
An IFC Films release. Not rated.
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