Werner Herzog's 1992 portrait of post-Gulf-War Kuwaiti oil fires shot as if alien-planet science fiction. Herzog's transcendent doc mode.
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Lessons of Darkness is a 1992 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. The film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, portrayed in a manner that accentuates the catastrophic and surreal nature of the landscape. An effective companion to Herzog's earlier film Fata Morgana, the film again perceives the desert as a landscape with its voice.