Werner Herzog: The Ecstatic Truth

Unforgettable stories, images and characters

Eye Filmmuseum presents an exhibition and extensive film programme around the work of celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog. With an unorthodox oeuvre of more than seventy features, documentaries and shorts, Herzog has fascinated audiences with unforgettable stories, images and characters for more than half a century.

His films grant us insights into the relationship between people and the chaotic world around them, as well as into the endless indifference of nature towards human life.

This exhibition features an insight into the way Herzog perceives the world. The ‘ecstatic truth’ - that is central to his work - reflects on Herzog’s fundamental quest, how he constructs and stylises images that expose this deeper level of truth: “I’m modifying facts in such a degree that they resemble truth more than reality.”

Free guided tours

Every Sunday at 14:00 and 15:00, a guide takes you on a tour (in Dutch) through the exhibition upon presentation of a valid exhibition ticket.

Every third Sunday of the month at 15:15, a Dutch Sign Language interpreter will give a guided tour. You can sign up by contacting rondleiding@eyefilm.nl.