"In a wide-ranging conversation with Fortune, the Bavaria-born director refers back often to his history of probing documentaries and feature films on humankind's unending quest for meaning. "Wrestling with this question" has "engaged my fascination" since very early on, he says: "I think it is something inherent in art or in poetry, or in cinema. What exactly it is, nobody knows.""
"He cites a survey of 2,000 philosophers seeking to define the concept of truth, and "nobody has a real answer." Many of Herzog's films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself. At times, the boundaries between art and artist blurred, with Herzog and his creative partner Klaus Kinski taking their dangerous onscreen missions into violent offscreen clashes with each other, as captured in the 1999 documentary, My Best Friend."
Werner Herzog, a Bavaria-born director, emerged in the 1970s as a leading figure of New German Cinema and gained wider exposure in the 2000s for Grizzly Man and later acting roles. Herzog has long probed humankind's quest for meaning through documentaries and feature films. The Future of Truth examines facts, truth, and trust in the 21st century across eleven short chapters and connects those themes to artificial intelligence, fake news, and technology. The work references a survey of 2,000 philosophers who could not define truth, cites the documentary Ghost Elephants, and recalls Herzog's turbulent collaborations with Klaus Kinski.
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