Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1939) is an American director of experimental documentary films. Read full biography of Godfrey Reggio →
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.
I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.
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... →
History has been the history of warfare.
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
Technology is not neutral.
The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
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... →
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... →
Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1939) is an American director of experimental documentary films.