Two compelling and lesser-known films by Werner Herzog. Lessons of Darkness (France/Germany/Great Britain, 1992, 54 mins.) is a documentary shot shortly after the Gulf War, capturing the terrible, disturbingly beautiful devastation in Kuwait. Set to the music of Mahler, Wagner and Verdi, this real-life, apocalyptic vision was named one of the best films of the decade by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice. Fata Morgana (West Germany, 1971, 76 mins.) is a non-linear film using Sahara Desert footage in an avant-garde retelling of the story of creation. "...for me, it's Herzog's most interesting film" (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader). In German with English subtitles.