The Indifference of Nature - GRIZZLY MAN (2005)

CONTENT WARNING

Violence, Suicide, Death

As if the negotiation of 'authorial intent' wasn't enough, this week Erich and Krishiv propose the reading of two auteurs through Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man (2005). Following the summers Timothy Treadwell spent in the Alaskan wilderness until his death, Grizzly Man offers an interesting glimpse at the animal activist's life both through his own camcorder footage and Herzog's interpretation of it. The opinion that it's impossible for a documentary to be objective is an enduring one, and one that you'll hardly find your hosts disagreeing with, but what if the essence of the film was its own subjective core?

Ned Schantz' article "Melodramatic Reenactment and the Ghosts of Grizzly Man" from Criticism.