No thread on him already? Major Austrian documentary film-maker, died yesterday of malaria contracted while shooting his new film in Liberia. A sad loss.
Epic scene of sulphur mining from his seminal Workingman's Death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4H4W0jiP2w
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 11:44 (twelve years ago)
Oh man, hadn't heard about the malaria-thing. Workingman's Death is great, want to see what else he made. RIP.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 11:49 (twelve years ago)
Megacities is the next one you should check out.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 11:53 (twelve years ago)
this is shitty newsi only ever got to see WD but think about it a bunch; has a lot of grace sometimes absent from that era's panoramic, international film. poor guy.
― schlump, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 16:22 (twelve years ago)