Lessons of Darkness
Directed by Werner Herzog
A haunting, visually sublime documentary of Kuwait's burning oil fields that transforms environmental catastrophe into a meditation on apocalypse and human ruin.
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
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