Legendarily intense German director Werner Herzog has directed a 35-minute documentary about the dangers of texting and driving for American telecommunications giant AT&T.
The collaboration makes sense only in the sense that nothing Herzog does ever really makes sense. (Remember that time he played the villain in a Tom Cruise flick last year? That was... yeah, that was weird.) He's best known for his films Aguirre: The Wrath Of God, Nosferatu The Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man, and for being regularly impersonated by Paul F Tompkins.
Herzog and AT&T's public service announcement, From One Second To The Next, will be shown to high schools, safety groups and government agencies across America. Despite its corporate origins and educational agenda, From One Second... doesn't exactly pull any punches, as it describes — in excruciating, almost unbearable detail — four accidents that resulted from texting while driving.
"What AT&T proposed immediately clicked and connected inside of me," Herzog told the Associated Press. "There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving — or texting at all — but I see there's something going on in civilisation which is coming with great vehemence at us."
Of course Werner Herzog doesn't send text messages.
Whether you're a Herzog fan or someone who doesn't believe texting while driving is really 'that bad', From One Second To The Next is a must-see — you can watch the entire doco below.
