Corporate sponsorship.  Public service announcement.  These are terms that would not seem to go hand-in-hand with great art.  Yet consider this half-hour documentary on the dangers of text-messaging while driving, which AT&T commissioned legendary Oscar-nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog to direct.  “From One Second to the Next” is a well-made, heartbreaking piece that allows some glimmers of the power of forgiveness.

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Geoffrey Reiter

Geoffrey Reiter (Associate Editor) is Professor and Coordinator of Literature at Lancaster Bible College. He holds a BA in English from Nyack College and a PhD in English from Baylor University, along with an MA in Church History from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of several academic articles on genre fiction and philosophy and has also written for Christianity Today online. An author of fantasy and weird horror, his poetry and fiction have appeared in The Mythic Circle, Star*Line, Spectral Realms, and Penumbra. His collection of weird horror, The Lime Kiln and Other Enchanted Spaces, has been published by Hippocampus Press.

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  2. Now, I saw this. I thought it was effective and well done. But no way would I call it great art. I love film, and I happen to love documentaries. I think everyone is bending over backwards because Werner Herzog made this. If Michael Moore had made it (lol at the thought!), would it still be called great art? I think not.

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