David A. Garner

The Briefing 3.20.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. CNN tells the scandalous story of D.E. Paulk and his family: The boy was watching people sing at a sweaty Pentecostal tent service one Sunday morning when a prophet onstage scanned […]

M. Leary

O'er The Land (Stratman, 2008)

Though he has many similar sequences in his work (e.g. the beginning of Heart of Glass, most of Fata Morgana), O’er the Land almost becomes the obverse of Herzog’s ecological cinema. It chooses to look when Herzog speaks. Its poetic edits undo the more patently coherent way Herzog places characters within the wilderness Stratman simply catalogs.