The Greatest Cinematic Moment of the 20th Century

Burden of Dreams

Back in ‘05, my big dream/scheme/delusion was to document the life of a unique community of anarchists, crooks, drop-outs, and deluded geniuses in the New Mexican desert. We have about 30 hours of tape, an unsatisfactory script, and a couple of hours of edited sound. Broken equipment and life’s other distractions have conspired to leave that material untouched for over a year.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don’t want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
- Werner Herzog

Obviously I’m not that dramatic, but hope that we’ll find a way to tell the story.

This is one of my favorite scenes from Burden of Dreams, the documentary about the disastrous filming of Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo.