
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) - Screens 125
About this episode
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) is a surreal documentary by Werner Hertzog offering viewers an unprecedented glimpse of Europe’s oldest Palaeolithic art inside France’s Chauvet Cave. As we step into the cave, we cross a threshold between present and past, waking and dreaming, fact and truth... sanity and insanity... A place where juggling archaeologists dream of lions, perfumers find caves by smell, and nuclear crocodiles draw closer every year.
Links
- Watch Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
- Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi
- The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance
- Neanderthal hashtag
- Mask of La Roche Cotard
- Majkić et al. (2017) Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Pešturina Cave, Serbia
- Life Drawing and the Chauvet Lions
- The Crocodile Farm
- Viminacium Archaeological Park
- Our review of The Lost City (2022)
- Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennan Series
- Hertzog explains “ecstatic truth” vs. “accountant’s truth”
- Azéma and Rivère (2012) Animation in Paleolithic Art
- Neanderthal perfume
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