Werner Herzog and director of photography Peter Zeitlinger review footage from Cave of Forgotten Dream, which was filmed in 3-D.(Courtesy Marc Valsella)
Last March, preeminent filmmaker Werner Herzog was given unprecedented access to Chauvet Cave in southeastern France to film the site's Paleolithic art. The result, his film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which will be released this spring, is a document of some of humankind's earliest and most extraordinary paintings. Since the cave was discove