Amazing Video by JD Thomas on How Miyazaki & Imagination
This January I went on a bit of a Studio Ghibli binge. (If you don't know about Studio Ghibli, first of all I'm sorry...but here's a good place to start. You won't be disappointed!) After watching a ton of his old films, I realized I didn't know much about Miyazaki the guy behind so much of Studio Ghibli's success who is also its founder and primary animator. After researching him and watching The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness on Netflix, which is a short documentary on his filmmaking process, I realized that the man behind the productions was just as interesting as the art he creates as well. The above YouTube video by JD Thomas talks about Miyazaki's unique approach to creating and how he isn't bounded by the rules and laws that govern our actual world. He is able to create beauty by creating worlds not constrained to the same rules ours are and it is wonderful.
Another Jewel by Channel Criswell This Time on Miyazaki's Views of Humanity
One thing I love about Miyazaki is his love of humanity, his commitment to feminism, passion for flight, and how he manages to marry all this together in his movies to create beautiful works of art. Criswell in this video was able to put my feeling into words and any Miyazaki fan or humanist in general will appreciate Criswell's words.
Miyazaki on AI
This was the last video I watched after my long Miyazaki binge and I think that the bluntness as well as the views Miyazaki expressing in the short two and a half short minute clip shows best how he views the modern world. In The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness he stated that he was a 20th century man and not a man of the 21st century. While that may be true, I truly believe their are things to be learned from those who grew up in times long past, and while progress is inevitable, we should move forward intentionally and not without aim, purpose, or most importantly humanity.
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