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Last year, the oscar-nominated documentary Fire of Love was released; a story about volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft who, after a lifetime of studying volcanoes, perished during an unexpectedly violent eruption. My next video, however, will be about The Fire Within; a documentary that was also released last year, and that is also about the Kraffts, but this one was made by Werner Herzog, and it's quite something else. 

As far as I can tell, very few people have seen this film, but no worries, it's not a required watch to enjoy my video about it. I mostly use it as a premise to talk about different philosophies of (documentary) storytelling, about the meaning of truth in cinema (and in real life), about experiences of the sublime, and about the relation between existentialism and humanism. 

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James Botevyle

For those in the UK who would like to see the films Fire of Love is on Disney+ and The Fire Within is on BBC iPlayer :)