{"id":176423679,"date":"2013-08-10T05:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176423679"},"modified":"2013-08-10T05:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T10:16:58","slug":"video-werner-herzog-made-a-documentary-about-texting-while-driving-and-its-haunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2013\/08\/10\/video-werner-herzog-made-a-documentary-about-texting-while-driving-and-its-haunting\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It\u2019s Haunting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, Aug. 9, 2013<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"><a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Werner Herzog Made a Documentary <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"><a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About Texting While Driving. <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"><a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And It\u2019s Haunting.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_176423680\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/herzog.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176423680\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176423680\" alt=\"erner Herzog \/ Photo by Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images for DIFF\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/herzog.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/herzog.jpg 250w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/herzog-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176423680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Werner Herzog \/ Photo by Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images for DIFF<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.david_haglund.html\" rel=\"author\">David Haglund<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;From One Second to the Next,&#8221; the rather unlikely film below, came together when AT&amp;T approached the legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog and asked if he would direct a series of short films warning people about the dangers of texting while driving.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">&#8220;What AT&amp;T proposed immediately clicked and connected inside of me,&#8221; Herzog told the AP. &#8220;There&#8217;s a completely new culture out there. I&#8217;m not a participant of texting and driving\u2014or texting at all\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/herzog-tackling-texting-driving-film-131326963.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">but I see there&#8217;s something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The result is haunting. It focuses on four accidents, some of them fatal, and Herzog aims his camera squarely at the faces of both victims and perpetrators, asking them to describe in detail what happened and the aftermath. Herzog emphasizes the change in civilization he perceives in part by examining an accident in which an Amish family was killed and another in which a horse-shoer&#8217;s truck was involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BqFkRwdFZ0?autoplay=&amp;wmode=transparent\" height=\"400\" width=\"568\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">It is not easy viewing, but, for the\u00a0&#8220;more than 40,000 high schools&#8221; and &#8220;hundreds of safety organizations and government agencies&#8221; where it will be shown, I suspect it will be effective. As Herzog says, &#8220;In one second, entire lives are either wiped out or changed forever.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2013\/08\/09\/werner_herzog_texting_while_driving_documentary_from_one_second_to_the_next.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2013\/08\/09\/werner_herzog_texting_while_driving_documentary_from_one_second_to_the_next.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It\u2019s Haunting. 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