Life and death of Grizzly Man
Premiering across Africa on Animal Planet tonight at 21:00, Werner Herzog investigates the life and death of Timothy Treadwell in the documentary, Grizzly Man. Herzog looks into the complexities of his existence between wild nature and humans.
He also interviews Treadwell’s friends and partners, as well as the pilot who dropped him off and found his remains, and the coroner who opened up the bear. The film uses Treadwell’s own startling documentary footage to paint a nuanced portrait of this complex and compelling figure while exploring larger questions about the uneasy relationship between man and nature.
At the heart of Grizzly Man is the spectacular footage of enormous grizzlies hunting, playing and fighting just feet from Treadwell and his camera. Treadwell shot these scenes over his last four visits to the Alaskan wilderness, apparently with the intention of creating a wildlife documentary.
Even more fascinating, though, are the times Treadwell turns the camera on himself, alternately testifying to his almost religious love for the grizzlies and revealing less attractive, all too human emotions, including vanity, rage, paranoia and loneliness.
Grizzly Man has received critical praise and won numerous awards, including Best Documentary and/or Non-Fiction Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.
He also interviews Treadwell’s friends and partners, as well as the pilot who dropped him off and found his remains, and the coroner who opened up the bear. The film uses Treadwell’s own startling documentary footage to paint a nuanced portrait of this complex and compelling figure while exploring larger questions about the uneasy relationship between man and nature.
At the heart of Grizzly Man is the spectacular footage of enormous grizzlies hunting, playing and fighting just feet from Treadwell and his camera. Treadwell shot these scenes over his last four visits to the Alaskan wilderness, apparently with the intention of creating a wildlife documentary.
Even more fascinating, though, are the times Treadwell turns the camera on himself, alternately testifying to his almost religious love for the grizzlies and revealing less attractive, all too human emotions, including vanity, rage, paranoia and loneliness.
Grizzly Man has received critical praise and won numerous awards, including Best Documentary and/or Non-Fiction Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.
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