He’s always been a busy bee.  In-between Werner Herzog’s canonical ‘70s/‘80s fiction features — the heady fare of Aguirre, Stroszek, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Nosferatu, Woyzeck and Fitcarraldo, a filmography which saw him undertake herculean feats like towing a boat up a mountain, braving the wilds of the Amazon jungle, and facing down his notoriously volatile leading man Klaus Kinski at gunpoint — his infinite energy allowed for him to create a parallel track of documentary shorts furthering his obsession with the moral and existential abyss.  Originally produced for German television, difficult to find, and rarely screened together, these shorts (averaging 45 minutes each) overflow with humor, heart, indelible images and Herzog’s own unforgettable voiceovers.  This epic five-film program has been sequenced for maximum emotional impact across three and a half hours of captivating cinema.  You’ll see monumental works of nature, the dark heart of the American Dream and the outer limits of the human experience. This is Herzog On 45. 
 

- Dark Flow of the Mountains (1984)
- God's Angry Man (1981)
- La Soufrière (1977)
- How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
- The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner (1974)