Country: Spain
Year: 2020
Duration: 80'
In 1974 Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris, an act of faith to prevent the death of his mentor, film critic Lotte Eisner. In 2020, a young filmmaker walks following in Herzog ́s footsteps in an act of love to one of the best filmmakers of our time. A journey through villages, nature, loneliness and cold, looking for the meaning of filmmaking. Including fragments of the book Of Walking in Ice by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog narrated by himself exclusively for the film.
Biography
film director
Pablo Maqueda
(Madrid, Spain, 1985) graduated in film, media and audiovisual communication. An experimental filmmaker, he was named one of the year’s best directors by Spanish film magazine Cinemanía. His interest in avant-garde cinema led him to produce and direct the experimental project All the Women 366 Minutes, 366 Videos, featured in international publications such as The New York Times and IndieWire. In 2013, he founded #Littlesecretfilm, a manifesto for Spanish cinema. As a producer, he has worked on more than twenty-five films, including works by Chema García Ibarra, Marçal Forés and Miguel Larraya. In 2020, he presented Dear Werner – Walking on Cinema, a tribute to Werner Herzog, at the TFF. In 2023, he made his first fiction feature, La desconocida, which screened in Málaga, Busan and numerous other international festivals. That same year, Variety named him one of its 10 Spanish Directors to Track. In 2024, he was selected for a residency at the Spanish Film Academy.
FILMOGRAFIA
All the Women 366 minutes, 366 videos (doc, 2012), Manic Pixie Dream Girl (doc, 2013), #Realmovie (doc, 2013), Dear Werner - Walking on Cinema (doc, 2020), La desconocida (2023), Caro Nanni (doc, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“In this documentary I have followed in Herzog’s footsteps, traveling the same path 45 years later, trying to reflect on his cinema and the sense of creation, looking to the past, and through my own experience in the present. During the journey, I reflect on the loneliness of cinema and the need for creation, on the projects that remain along the way, on the frustration of rejection, on the euphoria when one creates a powerful image in the mind of another human being. I like to say that this documentary is a cinematographic letter addressed to one of the best soldiers, as he defines us, in the history of cinema. A journey from the past to the present while trying to find my own voice as a filmmaker.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, FILM EDITING: Pablo Maqueda. MUSIC, SOUND: José Venditti. VOICES: Pablo Maqueda, Werner Herzog. PRODUCTION: Haizea G. Viana, We Love Cinema, Llanero Films.
CONTACTS: Haizea G. Viana haizeagviana@gmail.com
