Scenarios II: Signs of Life / Even Dwarfs Started Small / Fata Morgana / Heart of Glass

The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable filmsWritten in Werner Herzog’s signature fashion—more prose poem than screenplay, transcribing the vision unfolding before him as if in a dream—the four scenarios here reveal an iconoclastic craftsman at the height of his powers. In a brief introduction, Herzog describes the circumstances surrounding each scenario, inviting readers into the mysterious process whereby one man’s vision becomes every viewer’s waking dream.