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Godfrey Reggio

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Film director

Godfrey Reggio, born on March 29, 1940, is a renowned film director from the United States. His works are known for their unique visual style and philosophical depth, with his most famous series being 'Koyaanisqatsi', which explores the relationship between human civilization and nature.

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“I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.”

Ifs Thinking World Form Peace Praying Naive

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“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.”

Knows Years Kind Can Do Teacher Relationship Students Raises Educator Good Teacher Raises Questions

Author:Godfrey Reggio

“In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.”

Persons Ideas Wanted Young Order Social Justice Poor Five Teaching Brother Social Justice Vow

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“It's not that we use technology, we live technology.”

Use Technology Milieu

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“Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.”

Technology Air Conscious Breathe Milieu

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“Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.”

Real Happiness Form Principles Gone Mystery Terror Pursuit Certainty Aggression Technological Certainty In Life

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“It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.”

People Want Wanted Film Wish Causes Easy Clear Response What You Want Propaganda Engagement

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“The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.”

Ifs World Mean Whole Film Hours Memories Views Cutting Couple Right Now Normal Point Of View Senses Whole World Plus Seconds Theatrical Visitors

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“What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.”

Trying Use Shows Today Technology Air Effects Events Conscious Breathe Milieu

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“The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.”

Ifs Should Moments Wanted Order Language Felt Conscious Embrace Contradiction Live In The Moment Communes

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“I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.”

Thinking World Today Values Negative Enormous Negativity Live For Today

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“So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.”

Able Justice Balance Behavior Consequence Intention Environmental

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“So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.”

Feels States Film Language Decided Enormous Humiliation Lack Of Love

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“In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.”

People Feels Persons Real Effects Talent Blind Multiple Sensibility Blindness Deaf Illiterate Real Talent Illiterate Person

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“It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.”

Politics Technology Environment Economic Effects Structure Etc Host Comprehensive

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“All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.”

Politics Technology Tools

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“What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.”

Trying Light Technology Raises Flags Blinding Light

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“Technology is not neutral.”

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“But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.”

Ifs Trying Looks Facts Film Values Negative Metaphor Print Negation Positive Values

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“I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.”

Thinking Tools Tragedy Our Time Who We Are Adopted

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“History has been the history of warfare.”

Has Beens Warfare

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“The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.”

I Can Can Do Type

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“In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this.”

People Thinking Trying Feelings Process Term Realizing Struggle Pieces Critics Resolution Cant

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Born: March 29, 1940
Known for: Film director
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