Source: The Art of Nausicaä of the valley of the wind

by Hayao Miyazaki

Link to the full Artbook

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nausicaä would be an avatar of the extinction

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Moment of truth...

Keep in mind: I ONLY included the films in which (according to Wikipedia), Miyazaki was the SOLE director. The only one I couldn't squeeze on here was his latest work post-retirement (How Do You Live?). Also, alas, none of the other Ghibli films count, so don't ask for Arietty, or Grave of the Fireflies, etc.

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New NHK Studio Ghibli Documentary following Hayao Miyazaki during the making of Boy and the Heron ends with a hint that Miyazaki’s next film may be a long awaited sequel to 1984’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

watched nausicaa recently. love these guys

Ursula K. Le Guin once said that “[t]o use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.” Crucially, Nausicaä imagines a new way of being in the world by radically reframing our relation to it and our understanding of it. Instead of a desert, the inhospitable environment in Nausicaä is known as the Sea of Decay. But far from a dying and deadened milieu, the Sea of Decay is in fact brimming with life. This is hardly ironic but for a dominant binary and linear ontology around life and death. The living and the dead are not fixed in a binary but bound together in an intimate, dynamic, circling dance. Decay and regeneration are two sides of the same coin. Reflecting on when he moved to the Yanase River, Miyazaki recalls, “The river was more like a polluted ditch, filled with leeches and midge larvae. I was amazed by how noble these midges were and impressed that they would live in such a place.” The Sea of Decay, teeming with life, is arguably the site of some of the most luxuriant and resplendent imagery in all of Miyazaki’s films.

Source: The Art of Nausicaä of the valley of the wind

by Hayao Miyazaki

Link to the full Artbook

sometimes you have to rewatch nausicaa of the valley of the wind and be reminded that after disaster there is beauty. after violence there is love. there is magic in decay, there is hope in a toxic jungle there is -

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nausicaa by hayao miyazaki

sometimes you just gotta sit in your room and watch ghibli movies as you feel your heart overflowing with love for the little but overwhelmingly beautiful things this life can give us