Follow Werner Herzog Into France’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams is yet another Werner Herzog joint that will no doubt prove amazing. The gist of it:

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. He puts 3-D technology to a profound use, taking us back in time over 30,000 years.

[H]e brings us the earliest known visions of mankind: the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc cave art of southern France, created more than thirty thousand years ago. By comparison, the famous cave art of Lascaux is roughly half as old. Since Chauvet’s discovery in 1994, access has been extremely restricted due to concerns that overexposure, even to human breath, could damage the priceless drawings. Only a small number of researchers have ever seen the art in person.

And the trailer:

The film would likely be fantastic in standard 2D, but in 3D … I can only imagine.

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