Arquivo / 49ª mostra

The legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog once said that if you wanted to become a filmmaker, you should skip film school. Instead, he said, you should make a journey of 5,000 kilometers alone, on foot, "let`s say from Madrid to Kiev." "While you are walking," said Herzog, "you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema." In 2006, I decided to test Herzog`s idea. In March I began the long walk from Madrid to Kiev. I carried basic essentials, a tent and a sleeping bag, notebooks, and some camera gear. The walk brought me through Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, and the Ukraine.