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Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio

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Godfrey Reggio is an American director of experimental documentary films.

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"The normality of the world we live in is completely insane. Okay? Now, what are you going to do? All of you have to make a living, so you have to get a job. I would say you dont have to do that. You can do whatever you want. You dont have to get a job. You dont have to earn that money. You can do something else -- if you wish. If youre willing not to have security. If youre willing to work with other people. If youre willing to take that beautiful Zen statement: leap and your net will appear."
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"I have a lot of admiration for the director [Godfrey Reggio] because he knew how to give not just pretty pictures or images but was able, through a play of images, to give a critique of the modem world that is very close to my own. But its rather amusing to consider how differently different people can interpret this film. My wife, for example interpreted it as the story of the development of the world and its progression -- as a presentation of the creation of the world moving along into, very probably, an apocalypse. But one of my friends had a completely opposite reaction to the film. He thought that in the beginning it presented chaos, then moved after that into showing the progressive development of order. So you can see that the interpretation of images is very difficult."
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"When Koyaanisqatsi came out in 1982 (it was begun in 1975), this film taught me to look at the root of the future. Bob Dylans song "Blowing in the Wind" comes to mind. Our future is blowing in the wind. You can see it in the tense Ive created for my films, "the future present", or the rooted future. What we saw in Koyaanisqatsi almost 300 years ago, is even more coming true now because of the rooted future we live in. If you want to change things, I suggest you say no to the rooted future and create a future for yourself. We have a choice to change whats happening."
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