About a Hero

After a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect… The film is an adaptation of a script written by an AI system trained on Herzog’s body of work. The fictional narrative it produced, ironically self-reflective, is intertwined with a series of ‘real’ interviews with artists, philosophers and scientists reflecting on the notion of originality, authenticity, immortality and the soul in the age of AI.