Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio (1940–) is an American director of experimental documentary films. The most well-known of these is Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance (1982) and its sequels which depict different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature and technology.

Quotes

• 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 don't have to do that. You can do whatever you want. You don't have to get a job. You don't have to earn that money. You can do something else -- if you wish. If you're willing not to have security. If you're willing to work with other people. If you're willing to take that beautiful Zen statement: leap and your net will appear.
  • MASTERCLASS: Godfrey Reggio, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, October 2014. (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1sA4G2iErM#t=40m58s)

Quotes about Godfrey Reggio

• 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 it's 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.
  • Jacques Ellul, "Interview with Jacques Ellul", Radix 19.4 (1990), p. 4-7, 21-24 (cf. description at [1] and bibliographic detail at p. 141 of [2])