Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Werner Herzog's Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin is exclusively showing in the United States starting February 7, 2021.When Werner Herzog met Bruce Chatwin, legend has it the two spent forty-eight hours telling stories to each other. “For every one I told him,” Herzog remembers, “he would tell me three. We would sleep for a couple of hours, then wake up and carry on.” The year was 1984, the place Melbourne. Hot on the heels of Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog had travelled to Australia to shoot Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), while Chatwin, by then already a literary icon, was working on his fourth book, The Songlines (1987). His first, In Patagonia (1977) had sent the Englishman on a journey to the ends of the world to uncover the mystery behind a piece of “brontosaurs skin.” It had changed travel writing forever, concocting...
- 2/8/2021
- MUBI
Washington, Dec 30: A figure chiseled in stone that apparently stems from the era of the Prophet has been found in Yemen, and has sparked a number of questions about if there was ever a church in Mecca.
Paul Yule, an archaeologist from the southwestern German city of Heidelberg, has uncovered the 1.70 meters tall relief, in Zafar, some 930 kilometers south of Mecca.
The relief depicts a man with chains of jewellery, curls and spherical eyes.
Yule has dated the image to the time around 530 Ad.
He concluded that Zafar was the centre of an Arab tribal confederation, a realm that was two million square kilometres large.
Paul Yule, an archaeologist from the southwestern German city of Heidelberg, has uncovered the 1.70 meters tall relief, in Zafar, some 930 kilometers south of Mecca.
The relief depicts a man with chains of jewellery, curls and spherical eyes.
Yule has dated the image to the time around 530 Ad.
He concluded that Zafar was the centre of an Arab tribal confederation, a realm that was two million square kilometres large.
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