Recent Work
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant: Notes on Herzog Directing My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done
Current Project
L (Feature Film)
This is a story about something that can happen once in a lifetime, only if one dares to let it happen, something that can never be repeated, the memory of which haunts one forever and shapes what one has become. In this case, it is a love story-of a very rare kind. Anyone who has ever dared, even for a terrifyingly brief, tremulous moment, to let go and let his in-dwelling daimon become his destiny will know this experience and its haunting. For Adrian Morgan, it came in the form of an encounter with a siren on an isolated stretch of coast in the Mediterranean when he was nineteen-years old. Written, directed, and produced by Herbert Golder.
Shooting 2027
About Herbert Golder
Herbert Golder is the owner of Redlog Pictures, Boston, MA. Ballad of a Righteous Merchant, which he wrote, produced, and directed, is an intimate portrait of legendary filmmaker, Werner Herzog, with whom Golder has worked, in numerous capacities, on ten films, features and documentaries, across four continents. He shot Ballad of a Righteous Merchant while making a feature film he had co-written with Herzog, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009), which was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and for which Golder also received a nomination for Best Screenplay. When not making films, Golder teaches classical languages and literatures at Boston University, where he is Professor of Classical Studies, and also produces the award-winning journal, Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, for which he serves as Editor-in-Chief. He is at present scouting locations and casting for the feature film, L.
Collaborations with Werner Herzog
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009), Rescue Dawn (2006), The Wild Blue Yonder (2005), The White Diamond (2004), Christ and the Demons in New Spain (2002), Invincible (2001), Wings of Hope (2000), The Lord and the Laden (1999), My Best Fiend (1999) and Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997).
Public Conversations with Werner Herzog
“Conversations with Gorbachev,” A Conversation with Werner Herzog, Tribeca Film Festival, NYC, April 26, 2019.
“Every Man for Himself and God Against All,” A Conversation with Werner Herzog, Conversations in the Arts and Ideas, Boston University, March 25, 2019.
“An Evening with Werner Herzog,” Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, February 8, 2018.
