In effect, I feel like a bl... by Godfrey Reggio, an American Director

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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.”

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Godfrey Reggio

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Name: Godfrey Reggio

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Mar 29, 1940

Profession: Director

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Technology is not neutral.

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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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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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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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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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