Where the Green Ants Dream (dir. Werner Herzog)

[@lunainezdelamancha3368]

My heart aches for all the native people around the world who've suffered forever in the hands of greedy business men. Great movie. Thanks for sharing it. 🖖🌻💚

[@organicketchup5171]

How did I not know about this movie? As an Australian and a big admirer of Werner Herzog, this is right up my alley.

[@lingalook1]

Thats Right ! Been Right my alley too - Love his work - And the soundtracks- The Enigma of Kasper Hauser - ❤

[@jamesbueker11]

I’m glad to find this. Herzog is always interesting and any movie featuring Australia always makes me happy

[@annemcleod8505]

Thanks so much for uploading this. I had heard about it years ago but never seen it till now. Excellent film. I won't forget this.

[@ganeshsk6879]

Thank you for putting this up. I had read about the brilliant scene where "the mute" appears years ago. Never had the opportunity to watch the movie though. This is one of those films you must watch even if it breaks your heart.

[@erranttraveller]

This movie broke my heart. Probably one of the most beautiful and sad films Werner ever produced.

[@jakekubiki1517]

Thank you for for opportunity to watch this amazing movie again

[@kramalerav]

Three Mad Max series alums in this movie: Hugh Keayes-Byrne, Bruce Spence and Max Fairchild.

[@theexpresidents]

You forgot Nick Lathouris, who appeared in the original as the mechanic, and later went on to co-write _Fury Road._ But 3/4 ain't bad.

[@kowalski3769]

@@theexpresidents I thought I recognized some people from the Mad Max films.

[@trevorwhatever5301]

Thank you for this unexpected gem. ❤

[@soundwave3216]

What would you do ~ If I bring bulldozer and pick-up your church ?

[@geedub1965]

I love this movie, one of my all time favorites.

[@barbarabyers2721]

Filmed in Coober Pedy SA.

[@whtrabbit3852]

Great movie. Herzog is wealth of ! An Australian film called " OUTBACK in (70's), similar tracks of thought, but has female actress.

[@fabiengerard8142]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A never forgotten film I happened to see at age 20 in a Brussels movie theatre, at the time of its release. Quite Pasolinian, in some way. The trial scene is just so strong, literally overwhelming... Total shame, once again, on the arrogant self-proclaimed Western "civilization"... (Personally always sided with the last true Homo sapiens -- in this case the Australian Aboriginals).

[@nickbyroglou4468]

1:11:21 the silent one

[@justinparkerthewildwolf6394]

Bruce Spence and Hugh Keys burn are both in mad max

[@terencewise7349]

From Terence Wise in UK…….Shows the disconnect between modern humans and our environment,we grow rich and become more impoverished.

[@soundwave3216]

They've taken the plane ~ to where the green ants dream ......

[@thyliasmoss9672]

So glad to have this opportunity to watch it,! I am a fan of Herzog, and will be telling my boyfriend!

[@Claytone-Records]

We are all still stuck in the lift.

[@Alt-arts]

This film is an underrated masterpiece. Far better than the winner of Cannes in the same 1984, "Paris, Texas", I think.

[@alexkaschock6820]

This is easily within my top 10 most appreciated films. As is Paris, Texas… but the latter has me the torn and frayed ends of my long broken heart… where as this one ploughs my soul.

[@lingalook1]

Interezting- they where the same year,,

[@lorenzovillegas2457]

Fear of death, which greed is no antidote for.

[@ashokkumarg6277]

A death of a language is death of a 😭culture, more civilized world ruined the earth worst like anything 😭😭😭

[@theexpresidents]

Too bad your culture wasnt extirpated: then I wouldn't have to see your emojis

[@seb9779]

Anyone know where I can get a dvd copy of this film? I’ll ask Herzog himself if I have to...

[@stephenmmorgan]

It's worth a try. Years ago, after having my mind blown by a Herzog season at my local arthouse cinema in Australia, I emailed his production company to ask where I might be able to get a copy of Even Dwarfs Started Small with English subs, and I got sent a VHS dub (it was a long time ago!) with a handwritten note from Lucki Stipetic, Herzog's producer and half-brother!

[@seb9779]

@@stephenmmorgan that’s awesome man! Btw I ended up just switching regions on Amazon. Ordered it from some library in Seattle. Great condition. Great film.

[@DeCapitanOG]

This and many others are in the Herzog collection volume 1. You can find it on Amazon.

[@mughug9616]

Do we see the Green Ants at any point?

[@nikorudes]

yea briefly when we meet the scientist

[@sciencetroll6304]

Yeah well. I was part of surveying the 2nd Mintabie airstrip, so the old one could be mined.

[@roberthollands7863]

Styx got me here.

[@rickmay4261]

@EndlessGray ya, me too.

[@Vingul]

Styx who? Hexenhammer? Lol

[@TheDudeKicker]

who the hell cares?

[@robertbarnhart7791]

What song do they mention this in?

[@jefftait2856]

No body left who he can speak with. I know how he feels.

[@zazee6480]

The guy at the start of the movie is the guy in mad max he is the pilot in mad max 1

[@AudioPervert1]

Colonisation went on and on and on and on...

[@coloursarebrighter4719]

And still does

[@michaelroper4237]

yes and how dare we mow our lawns without electric mowers

[@theexpresidents]

And you're using a fruit of colonization: your fucking internet.

[@milesahead69]

Thank you for sharing.

[@harpman1876]

KZbin's subtitles are so worthlessly bad they're comical.

[@feltongailey8987]

Well, if he ran to the last car in the train, conceivably, he could perhaps jump off the rear car, to the ground as the train plummeted into the abyss....or something.

[@markwilliams3174]

I really didn't understand the subplot of th lost dog & Colleen Clifford as Miss Strehlow. I understand that Strehlow was an important name in colonial - Central Australian First Nations Peoples but that's all.

[@robertlee2262]

Dear thepostarchive - thanks for posting this film which I was glad to watch. I think that you should amend the top of your intro to make it clear that the film finishes some 20 mins before you expect it to. Knowing how long a film is/where ou are in it, can make loads of difference to how one watches, and to be surprised by a sudden end 20 mins early isn't great.

[@mikedowns8293]

I hour 40 mins is the IMDB Run time of this film; seems to me the film has been uploaded in its entirety.

[@robertlee2262]

@@mikedowns8293 Ah - no - it's just when I watched it there were 20mins of black screen after the film finished! Doesn't seem to be happening now - anyway not a big deal.

[@lorenzovillegas2457]

A film never ends early… nor does it end late, but always right on time.

[@westwild75]

There will be good out of bad...

[@velvetraindrops__7334]

Due to attacks I have to pause the movie.

[@catherinesecula5287]

I love this movie as I lives in Australia since 1986 ..but the end say it all ..man greed and ego , even from the more naive one take over ...the good guy end up with a big plane , useless for him and die in the ego and process..but he sign off his land to the devil for a big plane !!!!

[@miapdx503]

Indigenous people the world over try to share their wisdom with us. But we cling to our ignorance and call it progress. It will end us.

[@SecretCervix]

Are you kidding

[@thyliasmoss9672]

I Love this film! And I hope my boyfriend, Mr. Bob Holman, loves it too!

[@theexpresidents]

You must be single. With 9 cats. And Bob Holman doesn't exist.

[@iansing5278]

At 53.30 scientist states the green ants are termites (not ants at all,) then preceeds to show bull ants in his display box?

[@iansing5278]

@@SORIANSIST yes, Bullshit is bullshit, and Still they feed us with more!!! DEFY YOUR HUNGER

[@iansing5278]

@@SORIANSIST and then?

[@xixie5854]

@@SORIANSIST what class? Film?

[@rnnmuterle7958]

What you stooges are even talking about? Are you Marvel's ant-man or something to be so worried with scientific exatitude? This scene is mocking such trivial details on what are noithing more than human matters. Even kids can understand aesop's fables, or metaphors such as the insects in this movie. To feign utter ignorance or pretend to know more than others its necessary a academic degree, I guess...

[@iansing5278]

@@rnnmuterle7958 you guess...

[@troygaspard6732]

Dreaming is free.

[@brajkishorejha7332]

No one trying to listen development must be for sustainability not sustainable development. Mixing night soill with water a sustainable development but against law of nature and against sustainability. For sustainability it's recycling needed not destruction with water. No one has got right to allow its flushing with water out of home. All we, behaving like knowing all...

[@theexpresidents]

Learn English and grammar.

[@sunnysideupgirl84]

@@theexpresidentshow nasty, maybe this is an indigenous person who lived on country and didn’t got to school as much as you. Why are you even interested in such a film with that much ignorance, judgement and prejudice. English is their second language. Are you smart enough to be bilingual? What a troll

[@MCNovak100]

In Russia, tzarist, communist - or other - there would have been no issue. Ruskies would make a quick use of tommy-guns, make the "plaintiffs" rest and dream in a collective pit. This is how things work in that empire. I actually liked the manners and attitude of the judge. The "defendants" acted like gentlemen too.

[@alexcarter8807]

This is because Russia is still in the Dark Ages and no I am not being hyperbolic.

[@robinhoodstfrancis]

Amazing film. Wikipedia has a good page on the film, which has some reference to a real case, Milirrpum vs. Nabalco 1971. It´s a complex issue overall, since Western business people using sci-tech has assumed control of world affairs overall since the Industrial Revolution, and shifting that power structure requires empowering citizens in communities everywhere, including indigenous people. It requires uplifting a greater balance in education for sustainability and human rights, and pro-social co-operative economics, along with spiritual-religious phenomena and knowledge. Human Rights Watch has updates on aboriginal issues. The not for profit Cultural Survival Qtly offers their current issue as a pdf, no less. I´ve been interested in eco-social justice not for profits since starting with the PIRGs in the US, where I learned about the US´s Sierra Club and Greenpeace´s international work, and later Oxfam. In the US, food co-op stores have been a movement since the 1970s, joining credit unions, and green power co-ops. The internaitonal co-op organization ICA was founded in 1895, the ILO has had a co-op office, the US founded NCBA in 1920, and the UN COPAC in 1970. The UN Permanent Forum for INdigenous People was founded around 2000. The World Social Forum followed the UN environmental conference Global People Fora like 1992 Rio Summit. Solidarity Economics is an activist co-op movement, that parallels Fair Trade.

[@theexpresidents]

Shut up, white person.

[@BulletmanDoom]

You can't get high on ATF 😁😁

[@heathergundry7059]

❤❤❤

[@carlcruysberghs2298]

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[@OlivePittsOnDesk]

One thousand years from now, what will it matter? Everything alive lives then dies. Human meaning is just the latest fad: one paragraph in a book written by nature.

[@lingalook1]

Written by nature- nature Write

[@jefftait2856]

Humans will be here until we roll up time like a blanket. Or that's the story in India,not for sale in the West.

[@paulspice4717]

The most boring movie I have ever watched. The emperor's new clothes syndrome. Rubbish.