Da:"CNN.com"Herzog brings 20,000-year-old art to lifeBy Laura Allsop for CNNMarch 25, 2011 7:02 a.m. EDTSTORY HIGHLIGHTS3D film by Werner Herzog brings prehistoric cave art to life Cave paintings of hyena and mammoth up to 32,000 years old First film ever made of the caves Director currently working on Death Row documentaryLondon, England (CNN) -- Untouched for 20,000 years, the awe-inspiring Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave in Southern France is now brought to life in 3D by visionary German director Werner Herzog.As the camera drops into the cave, to the sounds of eerie chanting, breath-taking scenes of glittering, calcite formations and large halls littered with the bones of now extinct cave bears are not only illuminated but made to seem close enough to touch.Most important are the numerous paintings on the undulating walls of the cave, of animals including rhinoceros, bison, mammoths, lions, hyenas and horses, some painted up to 32,000 years ago and which are so vivid as to seem alive."Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is Herzog's first foray into 3D filmmaking and he says in this case for format was an obvious choice."The films I have made so far should not have been made in 3D but I think in this case that it was imperative," he said. "I am still in general skeptical about 3D."
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Da:"CNN.com"Herzog brings 20,000-year-old art to lifeBy Laura Allsop for CNNMarch 25, 2011 7:02 a.m. EDTSTORY HIGHLIGHTS3D film by Werner Herzog brings prehistoric cave art to life Cave paintings of hyena and mammoth up to 32,000 years old First film ever made of the caves Director currently working on Death Row documentaryLondon, England (CNN) -- Untouched for 20,000 years, the awe-inspiring Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave in Southern France is now brought to life in 3D by visionary German director Werner Herzog.As the camera drops into the cave, to the sounds of eerie chanting, breath-taking scenes of glittering, calcite formations and large halls littered with the bones of now extinct cave bears are not only illuminated but made to seem close enough to touch.Most important are the numerous paintings on the undulating walls of the cave, of animals including rhinoceros, bison, mammoths, lions, hyenas and horses, some painted up to 32,000 years ago and which are so vivid as to seem alive."Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is Herzog's first foray into 3D filmmaking and he says in this case for format was an obvious choice."The films I have made so far should not have been made in 3D but I think in this case that it was imperative," he said. "I am still in general skeptical about 3D."