Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's Unique View of the World

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
  • CivilNet talked with innovative, experimental documentary filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, who is participating in the 10th Annual Golden Apricot International Film Festival.

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  • @Asherbw
    @Asherbw 2 роки тому +26

    I love that a 40 year old film without dialogue can be more relevant than ever to this day.

  • @bethheinecamp1061
    @bethheinecamp1061 5 років тому +56

    I'll never forget the first time I saw 'Koyaanisqatsi'. It literally took my breath away. I know that sounds so cliche, but still, it's true. I was completely hypnotized by it. And, it spoke a Truth to me. I became very evangelical about it, urging friends and others to see it. I love how he redefines what 'language' means. I love that there's not one spoken word in the film, and yet, it speaks so forcefully! Thank you Mr. Reggio.

    • @TheUrbanCollectiveWeFilmIt
      @TheUrbanCollectiveWeFilmIt 3 роки тому

      Here Here my friend!

    • @lelemsays
      @lelemsays 3 роки тому

      I really want to watch it but cannot seem to get access to it outside the US. Help!

    • @dangi79
      @dangi79 2 роки тому +1

      When I saw it for the first time I could see the world with another point of view for the first time in my life. It was incredible to see human impact on this planet. Living in the caos.

    • @djcorvette8375
      @djcorvette8375 2 роки тому

      Same here

    • @ZoolGatekeeper
      @ZoolGatekeeper 2 роки тому

      For me the best Documentary of all time.. This is the film that is a relic of our time..the document for aliens that will find our remains at some faraway times...

  • @EsamBaaio
    @EsamBaaio 6 років тому +19

    This video have 150 likes and 0 dislikes. No one in their right mind could dislike the intelligent Mr Reggio.

  • @TemeculaValleyLapse
    @TemeculaValleyLapse 11 років тому +16

    Godfrey Reggio, what a brilliant mind. I've always wanted to meet him in person.

  • @Phil_Taz
    @Phil_Taz 4 роки тому +10

    Koyaanisqatsi is one of the soundtracks of my life. It is my thinking music, which I love. Thankyou all.

  • @dennishickey7194
    @dennishickey7194 2 роки тому +5

    As soon as he said he'd seen a life-changing film i was on alert. When he mentioned Buenel. I mentally shouted,"Say it: ' Los Olvidados'! He did. That film stayed with me. "City of Gold" is worth seeing too. Comic book super hero movies have their place and are sometimes more serious then they are given credit for, they can be modern equivalents of myths and morality plays but most are preposterous and strain for a significance they can't attain. Great films can change your experience of the world. Reggio's are great films.

    • @kichomano
      @kichomano 2 роки тому

      los olvidados changed my perspective of living and my mindset when I was 8 years old... now im 20, I've been 10 years shooting and loving reggios work and now the same sh happened to me, as soon he was talking of a life changing movie I thought of los olvidados and then when he said Luis Buñuel my skin started tickling and my heart beat rised. Reggio, Buñuel and Ariel Figueroa such an inspiration for me since I was a kid

  • @urrrccckostan
    @urrrccckostan 7 років тому +33

    No one ever asks him the question I would have. How does he feel that the style of his film has become the standard style of advertising? You can't watch a tv show without sitting through two or three car commercials imitating Koyaanisqatsi. It's been like that since the early 90s and his influence has increased over the years.

    • @glassjaw2007
      @glassjaw2007 6 років тому +4

      the irony right?

    • @dreamlandnightmare
      @dreamlandnightmare 4 роки тому +10

      @@glassjaw2007 Less irony and more the beast co-opting that which exposes the beast.

    • @StaniRomanov
      @StaniRomanov 4 роки тому +2

      Check out Reggio's interview on Singularity, he talks about exactly that

    • @jane-wing
      @jane-wing 3 роки тому +7

      @@dreamlandnightmare Correct. Capital is a beast which will devour anything it needs to devour in order to survive.

  • @DanielRamos-uf3ui
    @DanielRamos-uf3ui Рік тому +2

    "I'm a prisioner of this world..." I thing Godfrey is one of the most fascinatig men in the world.

  • @alexanderdorodeiko8374
    @alexanderdorodeiko8374 5 років тому +5

    Very good interview, thank you

  • @xcesar4impx666
    @xcesar4impx666 4 роки тому +2

    what a beautiful intellectual a being connected to something far more then what him himself cant even comprehend let alone us the viewrs here in this chat

  • @bdmatzek5060
    @bdmatzek5060 11 років тому +58

    Reggio is referring to Artavazd Peleshyan

    • @BenjaminCerbai
      @BenjaminCerbai 9 років тому +4

      +BD Matzek : Thank you very much for giving us his name ! :)

    • @pacosamo
      @pacosamo 9 років тому

      +BD Matzek Thanks for mentioning his name. It was very helpful.

    • @inJusticeShow
      @inJusticeShow 7 років тому

      much thanks man

    • @barrydouglasbutler8794
      @barrydouglasbutler8794 6 років тому

      Great, and many thanks for that information. New name for me.

    • @suprmposng
      @suprmposng 5 років тому

      thank you, i couldn't spell that when he mentioned him

  • @wisdomwisdom817
    @wisdomwisdom817 5 років тому +9

    You are a legend sir , I am sorry there aren't too many people that understand you , I am very sorry.
    Other wise, there would be a lot a better world.

  • @diegonayalazo
    @diegonayalazo 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for sharing

  • @fdasdf455555
    @fdasdf455555 9 років тому +16

    The guys a genius

  • @lamecasuelas2
    @lamecasuelas2 9 років тому +8

    Los olvidados is a masterpiece, my favorite Buñuel film

  • @dougo891
    @dougo891 4 роки тому +7

    Met him about 1981 and attended some of the dubbing sessions for Koyannisqatsi. And I saw "Los Olvidados" about 1974❗

  • @FilmTalkRadio
    @FilmTalkRadio Рік тому +1

    AMAZING!!!

  • @bethheinecamp1061
    @bethheinecamp1061 5 років тому +4

    Oh and yeah, I love that NO ONE has given this a thumbs down.

  • @colinshawhan8590
    @colinshawhan8590 6 років тому +16

    His hair is great!

  • @the14thearlofgurney84
    @the14thearlofgurney84 6 років тому +5

    Love the Qatsi trilogy. He's done ok for himself

  • @nicossamios3833
    @nicossamios3833 Місяць тому

    That film is embeded into my DNA. No more to comment!

  • @krafthund
    @krafthund 5 років тому +5

    His voice is fantastic. Just like Scottie Pippen's one :)

    • @bonvabriones
      @bonvabriones 5 років тому +2

      Reminds me George Carlin from time to time

    • @QuestionmarkTimes2
      @QuestionmarkTimes2 4 роки тому +2

      @@bonvabriones First thing I thought when I heard him. Nailed it.

  • @notthisnotthat
    @notthisnotthat 4 роки тому +7

    I hear echos of Wittgenstein's early work and J. Krishnamurti's ideas about the world and relationship in this interview.

    • @oussemakhalloufi9558
      @oussemakhalloufi9558 2 роки тому +1

      First thing that popped in my head once he started about language and its limitations.

  • @eduardvlogmc8014
    @eduardvlogmc8014 Рік тому +1

    The people in this comment section are my kinda people

  • @gibememoni
    @gibememoni 3 роки тому +2

    what a genius

  • @byenow.797
    @byenow.797 Рік тому +3

    what is the name of the Russian director he is referencing?

  • @kichomano
    @kichomano 2 роки тому

    Los Olvidados por Gabriel Figueroa y Luis Buñuel, de las mejores películas

  • @ruthlesscriticism6900
    @ruthlesscriticism6900 3 роки тому +1

    He is genius and hearin him speak I suspect he has read his share of adorno.

  • @ayushbhardwaj319
    @ayushbhardwaj319 3 місяці тому

    Which film director is being referred to at 2:02 ?

  • @nw6231
    @nw6231 3 роки тому +2

    He looks like Francis Ford Coppola

  • @mattstarr7573
    @mattstarr7573 11 років тому +2

    How do you spell the Russian director he references at 13m? Pelejon?

    • @WINNETHOMAS
      @WINNETHOMAS 8 років тому

      Have you found the director?

    • @WINNETHOMAS
      @WINNETHOMAS 8 років тому

      Oh nevermind, someone already mentioned it!

    • @armenmartirosyan2830
      @armenmartirosyan2830 7 років тому +3

      @Matt Starr, He's talking about Artavazd Peleshian, Armenian documentary film master, not Russian.

    • @MineNat69
      @MineNat69 3 роки тому +1

      @@armenmartirosyan2830 Thank you so much

  • @farryam3225
    @farryam3225 5 років тому

    The New Message from God, received by Marshall Vian Summers (look him up, a humble Messenger for our time and the times to come) brings a warning, a blessing and a preparation for the new world we are entering and are living in already today. It is not based on any existing religion or ideas, it is a new message for our time and the times to come.

  • @emptybelly7245
    @emptybelly7245 4 роки тому +2

    So you can't spell Godfrey without God?

  • @edimadigabi7112
    @edimadigabi7112 5 років тому +1

    Akram fezgekri maltan

  • @jenmvaux
    @jenmvaux 7 років тому +7

    I don't care what anybody says, that's Bernie Sanders.

  • @mikederasmo7621
    @mikederasmo7621 4 місяці тому

    this simple film can touch millions with no language yet hollyweird spend billions of utter trash, for grown ass man , super hero, crap, they dont make anything that lifts the human spirt,