He has also worked in film in different capacities, notably with Werner Herzog on ten films, features and documentaries,[9] such as My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done, which he co-wrote and which was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.[10] Golder's own most recent film, Ballad of a Righteous Merchant, which he wrote, directed, and produced, garnered him over 30 international awards and many nominations.[11] His current project is L, a feature film, which he has written and will direct.[12]
Education and Career
Herbert Golder was born in Philadelphia, PA, to Ruth and Mervyn Golder, President of the GB Goldman Paper Company. After graduating high school, he attended Boston University as a University Scholar, where was the protégé of William Arrowsmith, graduating summa cum laude in 1975. He went on to do graduate work in classics at Yale University, earning a M.A. (1977), M.Phil. (1979) and Ph.D. (1984). In between his last two degrees, he attended Oxford University as a visiting postgraduate student (1982). He wrote a doctoral dissertation on Greek drama as a performance art entitled, Euripides’ Andromache: A Study in Theatrical Idea and Visual Meaning under the direction of C.J. Herington.[13]
He was a Teaching Fellow and Instructor in Classics while completing his dissertation at Yale University (1977–80) and afterwards moved to Syracuse University as an Assistant Professor of Classics (1982–85). In 1985, he joined the classics department at Emory University and in 1988 moved onto Boston University, where he became an Associate Professor in 1993 and a Full Professor in 2004. In 1990, he relaunched the journal Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics that explores the links between the classics and living culture, which had been founded in 1962 at the University of Texas at Austin by his mentor, William Arrowsmith, and which had been defunct for thirteen years. In 2014, he also assumed the role of Professor in Cinema & Media Studies.
An interest in cinema coeval with his interest in classics, arising from his conviction that if Sophocles or Homer were alive today, they would be filmmakers, working in the most powerful myth-making medium was possess, led to a chance encounter with Werner Herzog in 1988. After a brief discussion about Greek drama, Herzog told Golder he should work in film with him and they started working together that day. Over the years, Golder has worked with Herzog, writing, producing and assistant directing, even appearing as an actor in one of his feature films, Invincible (2001). Golder chronicled their working relationship in a documentary film, entitled, Ballad of a Righteous Merchant, which was shot during the making of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, a feature film which he co-wrote with Herzog.[14]
Premi Speciali, 66th Locarno International Film Festival, 2013.
FIPRESCI Award Biennale Venice 2005, The International Critics Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics, Venice International Film Festival, 2005.
Carnet Jove – Special Mention (Won), Stiges-Catalonian International Film Festival, 2005.
Best Film Nomination, Stiges-Catalonian International Film Festival, 2005.
Grand Prize Nomination, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 2005.
Best Film Nomination, Mar del Plata Film Festival, 2006.
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