Godfrey Reggio - "Evidence"

A short film by "Koyaanisqatsi" director Godfrey Reggio produced at Fabrica (www.fabrica.it) in Italy with Angela Melitopoulos and Miroslav Janek and produced by Massimo Cortesi.

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  Film & Animation

[greenish4]

I'm not advocating for TV, but I would like to see a video of children listening to someone tell a story. Would it look similar to this?

[assassthenation]

I agree with Reggio's point here completely, though I'm not convinced he's making it as clearly as he thinks. I'm pretty sure if you filmed children watching something "real," or adults reading a particularly entertaining book or listening to an engaging story, the reactions would be about the same. I love his "trilogy," but this seems sort of disingenuous, despite how much I'd love to think otherwise.

[Mark Seibold]

But useless for advancement of the human race.

[Mark Seibold]

Good point you make. This is of course why it was named the idiot box long ago. Yet many people will defend it like they need another cigarette. Television watching for most people is no different than a drug addiction. I mentioned Jerry Mander's books above as another reply. They are the definitive statement on the corruption of the human race; the first written from 1973 ~ c1978 . The Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. The second, In Absence of the Sacred c1991, pages 84-86.

[Mark Seibold]

Many people do not realize the power of the video image and that it is not the same as experiencing reality. A shocking read would be for all here to get a hold of Jerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television c1978 and his later book, In Absence of the Sacred- The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations c1991. Read a few pages in these books, you'll see the shocking evidence revealed of what television actually does to the human mind when doctors explain.

[Giorgi Nemsitsveridze]

I'm curious to watch the children's faces while listening to Lady Gaga

[clara campos carvalho]

I loved that film, I cried with it. But if the idea was to show how dull kids get with tv it worked the opposite way for me, people look like that when focused and interested. If I filmed myself while watching it I was not going to look very different from that little girl, crying but not moving or blinking so I would not miss anything.

[bugniabricco]

religions do the same to our children.

fuck that shit!

[sofaced]

Those who say children's reaction to anything engaging would be the same could not be more wrong. That's why this is so poignant. "Engaged" means involved. These children are not involved, they are remote witnesses. I watch children listening to stories all the time. They react to and interact with the story and the reader and are indeed involved. Anything with a live human is engaging for them. But watch a child go numb in front of the "idiot box."

[quadroon12]

i looked like this whilst watching Koyaanisqatsi

[Panico DO FILME]

porn is very useful for mind...and hand