Department of Herzog: The Minnesota Declaration

Werner Herzog (photo by Erinc Salor)

Back in 1999, the always forward-looking Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosted a career retrospective for the Quixote-like filmmakerWerner Herzog. He was years pasthis early narrative successes likeAquirre, the Wrath of Godand yet to hit the later bumper crop of documentaries that started with 2005’sGrizzly Man.

Still, Herzog came bristling with ideas, like the intellectual guerrilla he is. As part of the event, he issued his “Minnesota Declaration: Truth...