Werner Herzog's Ghost Elephants follows Herzog and National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes on an expedition to Angola and the depths of Africa's last great subtropical rainforest to search for elusive ghost elephants, potential living descendants of the largest land mammal ever recorded. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and will also play at the Telluride Film Festival. Herzog described filming techniques that involved a metal stick with a camera wading in water to capture dreamlike, emerging images of elephants. Herzog received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Ghost Elephants will stream on Disney+ and Hulu in 2026.
They are not aggressive when they are in water, when they're wading in water. And it's basically some sort of a metal stick with a camera attached. And the camera is wading in the water that deep and follows elephants. There was footage, for example, where the camera moves up and out of the water and all of a sudden very realistically, you see the reality of the elephant. And I said, no, no no. The beauty of it is that it's like a dream of an elephant,
All my films have a common worldview, the same basic vision of the world. And because of that, I cannot be imitated easily,
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