I felt very fortunate today to see the new Herzog film 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams'. The film itself is not perfect but the subject matter is wonderful. Cave paintings over 30,000 years old discovered in the Ardeche in winter 1994. I had expected that the images would be fairly primitive. However, the paintings of the animals that walked the area in this time were sophisticated and beautiful. Lions, cave bears, mammoths, rhinos, aurochs and most of all the horses - the beginning of man illustrating the world around. It's in 3D and if you get a chance to catch it in the cinema it's well worth it. You can see some of the images here, but in 3D it was excellent - it must be amazing for real.
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We're getting the 2D version in Stoke at the end of the month ! -
That genuinely looks very good John. Were there any reassuring llamas in the film?
A beautiful evening in Cornwall with fishermen out in their boats
Hear only their oars near the aurochs and water against the floats.
Someone somewhere must be able to track it down in the BBC library for me!Comment
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LLamantably not, Lat! But there was an amazing bit where this guy in a vineyard showed WH how they would have propelled spears that would have killed their prey - and it had me thinking again that these ancestors must have been so much stronger than we are today, living their lives in an ice age ( and I was moaning about the winter!). Get to see it if you can.Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostComment
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