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    Acting is Reenacting: Nathan Fielder’s Herzogian Pursuit of Truth

    Werner Herzog famously differentiates factual reality, which he calls “the accountant’s reality” from his widely imitated style of near-documentarial filmmaking called the ecstatic truth, a term that was also coined by the German eccentric. This idea, which has been interlinked into much of his entire filmography and writing, finds a fitting successor in Nathan Fielder. […] More