Walking to Werner
93 minutes, 2006
Sun. Oct 8, 9:00PM, Sequoia
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It's a snappy idea: Young filmmaker walks 1,200 miles from Seattle to Los Angeles to meet Werner Herzog, hoping this extravagantly foolhardy gesture, which emulates a walk Herzog once made between Munich and Paris, will earn said young filmmaker an audience with the man himself. No matter that Herzog says he won't be home and thinks, anyway, that the film would be �purer� without him. What happens next on the road is the subject of this hilarious but worldy-wise diary of how a clever stunt became a pilgrimage. Like a true stoic, director Linas Phillips decides to continue, willingly suffering hazard and privation to discover his own "ecstatic truth." The people he meets along the road respond to his commitment in kind, telling their tales of murder, addiction, madness and transformation. Walking to Werner is a testament to the power of folly, willpower and heart. — J. Campbell
Director: Linas Phillips
Producer: Dayna Hanson
Cinematographer: Linas Phillips, Benjamin Kasulke
Editor: Linas Phillips
Print Source:
Linas Films, LLC
915 31st Avenue
Seattle, WA, 98122
Tel: 206 850-3613
718-637-4711
Official Website: www.linasfilms.com
