Erik Nelson

Erik Nelson is the director of The Cold Blue, which airs on HBO on June 6, and the 2017 documentary A Gray State. He is the producer of Werner Herzog’s award-winning documentaries Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Into the Abyss and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. His previous work as a director includes the Harlan Ellison documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, which premiered at SXSW in 2008. (Photo by Galen Fletcher, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.)

Talks

Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be

Film

By Erik Nelson | June 3, 2019

Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be

The Cold Blue's director on his new doc, restoring William Wyler's The Memphis Belle and propaganda and "fake news," then and now.

Collaborating with Ghosts (and Werner Herzog)

Film

By Erik Nelson | November 1, 2017

Collaborating with Ghosts (and Werner Herzog)

Erik Nelson explains how his cinematic communing with the dead started with Grizzly Man, and continues with his new film, Gray State.