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Holy Smoke - What Is Reality? Alan Moore clip 27th July 1998 London Weekend Television
(1998) Holy Smoke - What Is Reality?
WHAT IS REALITY?
London Weekend Television, 1998
"WHAT IS REALITY?"
Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real.
Then there's the mind, half-focused on the TV, the settee, the clock. This ghostly knot of memory, idea and feeling that we call ourself also exists, though not within the measurable world our science may describe. Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
Before the Age of Reason was announced, humanity had polished strategies for interacting with the world of the imaginary and invisible: complicated magic-systems; sprawling pantheons of gods and spirits, images and names with which we labelled powerful inner forces so that we might better understand them. Intellect, Emotion and Unconscious Thought were made divinities or demons so that we, like Faust, might better know them; deal with them; become them. Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to.
Science proves there never was a mermaid, blue-skinned Krishna or a virgin birth in physical reality. Yet thought is real, and the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably exist, wielding tremendous power. If Aphrodite were a myth and Love only a concept, then would that negate the crimes and kindnesses and songs done in Love's name? If Christ were only ever fiction, a divine Idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea, make holy wars less terrible, or human betterment less real, less sacred?
The world of ideas is in certain senses deeper, truer than reality; this solid television less significant than the Idea of television. Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
- Alan Moore.
WHAT IS REALITY?
London Weekend Television, 1998
"WHAT IS REALITY?"
Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real.
Then there's the mind, half-focused on the TV, the settee, the clock. This ghostly knot of memory, idea and feeling that we call ourself also exists, though not within the measurable world our science may describe. Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
Before the Age of Reason was announced, humanity had polished strategies for interacting with the world of the imaginary and invisible: complicated magic-systems; sprawling pantheons of gods and spirits, images and names with which we labelled powerful inner forces so that we might better understand them. Intellect, Emotion and Unconscious Thought were made divinities or demons so that we, like Faust, might better know them; deal with them; become them. Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to.
Science proves there never was a mermaid, blue-skinned Krishna or a virgin birth in physical reality. Yet thought is real, and the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably exist, wielding tremendous power. If Aphrodite were a myth and Love only a concept, then would that negate the crimes and kindnesses and songs done in Love's name? If Christ were only ever fiction, a divine Idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea, make holy wars less terrible, or human betterment less real, less sacred?
The world of ideas is in certain senses deeper, truer than reality; this solid television less significant than the Idea of television. Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
- Alan Moore.
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THANK YOU!!!
Oh man, I'd love to see a 4k version of this. Still good even now.
Thank you Andy Lee
What a work of art. They must have been inspired by Sergio Leone's movies as I recognize filming locations of Once upon a time in America, The good, the bad and the ugly and other spaghetti westerns like My name is nobody. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome!
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Finally I found this video!! I thought it was one of those half invented stories that are told in many families. So happy to find out that it's true: I am that baby Dali blessed with the "artistic cross"!!
Wonderful presentation of Hello Dali!! Hello Dali was one of the documentary specials that aired for the first time as part of PBS' Festival '75 Membership Pledge Drive on most PBS stations including my local PBS station: KPBS San Diego, Circa Saturday March 15th, 1975!! 11 Great Nights on Public TV!!
Dali é odioso! Um monstro q nunca deveria ter existido
1:10 😂
haha when i was young i like collapsing people through towers, putting monkeys inside golden things ha ha i love this guy what a way he had to talk
Dali always fascinating, thanks for the upload
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I said to Lord Farquar . . . "Squire" I said . . . "How is it that you claim with much arrogance to own three original |)∆|_i master-works, and yet in your selfish-ness refuse anyone to be permitted to feast their eyes upon them, thereby reducing the conversation to claims of lies, lies , damned lies with regards to your claims of owning the aforementioned master-works of |)∆|_i !!? " Farquar , in his usual snooty manner , oftentimes described by those who knew him least as . . . "Hopelessly trapped within his hopeless vanity" stared down at my shoes and stifled a laugh. "My dear fellow", he said , continuing:" How on earth can you possibly expect me to respond to your perfectly legitimate question when you have the bare-faced cheek to address me with your suspicions whilst wearing such atrocious shoes? " He turned to leave. "Utterly perplexing!!" , he snorted.
What 's happening?
Qué maravilla de documental...
It is, I wish I had a better copy
I was re enlightened.when I purchased a rather knackered looking copy of the white room yesterday.it looks like it's spent the last 31yrs languishing in the dusty glovebox of a car rusting away in a scrapyard.it plays fine btw . fabulous memories.especially extreme noise terror at the awards show .
Shame about the tramlines. Interesting character though.
There are not a lot of comments here and that makes sense.
Andy, thank you so much for posting this - I know the dialogue off by heart and it fills me with such joy! 1973 was two years after my father took me to a campsite within sight of his beach house and we never even knew!
lol at the clip from Pink Floyd's "One of these Days" as Dali rises into the shot at 4:08.
I am writing from the same armadillo as a rhinoceroses horn
I know everything abo being Dali I am now the new
I've been to the museum and it's amazing to see it in this unfinished state.
Dali is great painter with deep and wide explanatory mind
The radiator grill on the right side of the car was damaged during the filming of "The Timelords - Doctorin 'The Tardis", when Dalek was knocked down.
I wondered about that, I'm a big fan of The LKF. And made this homage video. th-cam.com/video/f7euqPvGYxA/w-d-xo.html
1:28 What the name of this peinture?
Mac Luhan diría el arte moderno extendiendo todos los sentidos para dejar atrás la era simplemente. Visual. GENIAL
I love his explanation of crotches, Dali makes my day ❤️
Fabulous! Love the choice of music at the end! It’s perfect !
He ,had His own language of expression. In His Phsyce
Thank you!
Bummer - I woke up with the pun "Hello Dali" in my head and thought I was so smart! And Salvador himself beat me to it!!
Très intéressant pour les passionnés et l'histoire de l'art. C'est la première foi que j'entends sa voix. Merci pour le partage.
3:50 that scream.... hahahaha dali master....
Andy, where did you get this video from? It is great... was this their house in South London? I think I went there in 1992.
Yes there was.. the house is in Wandsworth where myself (I was helping with the techy shit and some of the BTS FOOTAGE), my friend was the focus puller (2nd AC)) and the crew shot Last Train to Transcentral.. (the model scene) which Jim and Bill built in the living room that looked more like a squat! The Spanish scenes were shot (if I remember rightly) over a week, I think a bit less. The script... well, there wasn’t one and we spent £1,000,000 ! The idea behind the film was that it was used as a back projection during their live performances. Good days indeed!
@@FCPWHAT Awesome, love to hear it. And yeah, I thought Transcentral was a squat...
This is the best clip of the doc! He even makes Russell Farty laugh about animal cruelty. Dali. The charlatan. God bless him. Lol.
I love Dali. I’m trying to figure out why he is often called a charlatan and a fraud ?
@@parisasun2541 Dali defrauded himself. He signed thousands of blank papers for printing any old tat. Plus his paintings were painted by others. Including his fisherman buddy. Avida Dollars!
A timeless masterpiece that's over 30 years old. I remember this when I was high school. KLF perfect ;)
Track ID at 11:17 anyone ?
Such an histrionic personality 💗❤️
GRRRREEETINGS.
Just as Russell takes up the commentary after Dali introduces the Giraffe, there is a piece of dialogue from Dali which is almost ( but not quite) disguised by Harty's Voice-Over. This is a joke of Dali's: In a Spanish hotel someone discovers a fire and runs down the corridor shouting "FIRE! FIRE!" in Spanish ("Foch! Foch!") An enraged American comes out of his room to confront the poor man, saying "Foch Yourself!" I know this because I edited this film! Listen carefully, you'll hear it!
I heard it! Lol. Harty tone irritates me throughout this doc. You gotta love Dali, the perverted charlatan he was.
Hi, only one thing. Foc is Catalan, not Spanish, for fire. In Spanish is 'fuego', but is a small detail next to your great job if you edited this so good edited video 😉 I'm happy to see Dalí is respected outside Catalonia and Spain where he is so underrated and disrespected.
I’ve always wanted to see this. It’s like a visual “Chill Out,” a real artistic journey piece. So very cool!
i like it
Qué maravilla ese niño haber recibido la señal de la cruz en su frente, del propio Dalí... Vaya bendición!!!
jajaja
Интересно, достиг ли успеха или счастья этот ребёнок
I recorded this in 1989 too. Have loved it ever since
É o quê, broder?
i find Dali overrated... and this? well, i find the Monty Python flying Circus animation sequences more interesting artistically... and the oh so shocking jump from hitler to Rousseau.... yawn.
I think the point isn't judge his geniality. You and me are in a different time of him. Another velocity, values, patiences... What we can do here is closer to a conversation with him. But, anyway, I understood nothing.
ahahahahah! well i guess that is why you can find him overrated... spouting BS at will is something anyone can do. take some speed or better yet some coke because it makes you believe you are a genius! and you'll be talking and talking... nobody to hear you? take a pen and paper, or a typewriter.... weirdly it doesn't seem to work as well with a computer keyboard....
I LOVE DALI.....AND HIS WORK OF ART.....LONG LIVE DALI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, it is unknown if this is the finished movie or just someone who have edited together clips and put music on it. It is known to have never been finished.
Oh no, it is genuine. This is taken from a promo copy supplied by Bill Butt of Atlas Films. This isn't the finished movie, it was put together for investors in Germany. I know because I used to work at their radio & TV promo company.
@@DrewBadly It inspired me to produce this fan version. th-cam.com/video/f7euqPvGYxA/w-d-xo.html