American - Director | March 29, 1940 -
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.
Godfrey Reggio
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Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
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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.
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These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
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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.
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The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
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All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
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