Gas Giants
Gas Giants
Stroszek
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Stroszek

Following a suggestion from Tom's wife, our two heroes set sail on the strange seas of Werner Herzog's 1977 masterpiece and attempt to find dry land.

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SPOILERS coming…

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Photography examples

Tom especially admires these of examples of photography in Strozek…

Music

Sonny Terry, Old Lost John featured two of Herzog’s movies. One with a dancing truck in flames, the other with the breakdancing soul of a gangster.

Spoiler warning!

Spoiler warning!

I’m not really sure why I included this here, apart from it’s an example of very strange German storytelling…there is, surely, something of the Moritaten aesthetic here, surely? Or is it a bit of a stretch , maybe?

Moritäten Briefly Discussed

A Moritäten Vorträger at work in Augsburg.

Auction chant

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck ChuckBeobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (1976 Herzog film for TV)

The art of Adolf Wölfli

The fascination held by “outsider art” over the artsy intelecual class makes Tom uncomfortable. The art of Adolf Wölfli is a well known example.

The Cast

Eva Mattes

Eva Mattes in Stroszek (1974)
Eva Mattes in Strozsek
Woyzeck Woyzeck Eva Mattes, Klaus Kinski Woyzeck (Klaus Kinski) und Marie (Eva  Mattes) *** Local Caption *** 1979 NUR DIGITAL Stock Photo - Alamy
Mattes as Marie in Woyzeck
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Mattes as Hauptkommissarin Klara Blum in the ARD ‘s Tatort

Bruno S.

Der Fremde ist der Tod

2003 documentary film by Miron Zownir. Version with English titles and subtitles “Bruno S. – Estrangement is Death”.

Tom thinks these moments are especially notable

  • 3:02 Lars Bruno relates a story in which Bruno is rejected by the Cannes crowd from the premiere of his own film.

  • 38:00 Fritz Schuler and Hans Krause talk about how people were ashamed of Bruno except when they learned of his art, at which point he became an object of intense interest.

A short film clip in which Bruno. S will freeze your blood

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Gas Giants
Gas Giants
All of culture explained by two fat old men, one artifact at a time. Gav and Tom gas about music, movies, TV, books and their creators attempting to understand what they mean about everything else in the world. New episodes every other week Fridays.