Join one of documentary’s most iconoclastic auteurs on a hypnotic journey inside France’s Chauvet Cave, home to the world’s oldest surviving cave art. With unprecedented acccess to the caves, and using specially-designed 3D cameras, Werner Herzog reveals a breathtaking subterranean world where ancient and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, cattle and lions have been kept intact for 30,000 years. Let yourself be lulled by the German director’s quintessentially humorous voiceover as he weaves together ecstatic images of the art with wider metaphysical contemplations on the life and dreams of its Paleolithic creators. In true Herzogian fashion, you will be left reflecting on our primal desire to communicate and represent the world around us, and ultimately what it means to be human.

High Minded: It’s legal now. A collection of documentaries for the high minded, featuring the biggest-thinking, most visually profound and psychedelic documentary cinema.

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