William Gibson - No Maps for These Territories
by Mark Neale
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Actor: Bono, Jenna Mattison, Kimberly Blair, Nick Conroy, William GibsonDirector: Mark Neale
Brand: Gibson
Cinematographer: Chris Norr
Cinematographer: Grant Gee
Cinematographer: Joe Kessler
Cinematographer: Mark Neale
Producer: Mark Neale
Writer: Mark Neale
Cinematographer: Mark Ritchie
Cinematographer: Phillip Todd
Cinematographer: Steven Miko
Producer: Chris Paine
Producer: Mark Pellington
Producer: Mary Buffet
Producer: Tom Gorai
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
DVD Reviews of William Gibson - No Maps for These Territories
DVD Review: A great conversation
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't ever seem to have the wherewithal to see my favorite authors (when/if they come around) - so here was the converstion I would have liked to have had with Mr. Gibson.DVD Review: Tries (& Fails) To Be More Than An Interview
Summary: 3 Stars
Gibson is an interesting guy and, as an interview, this film will succeed for fans who want to hear him in action. Neale fails when he tries to turn it into something more: parts of the film might make a good five-minute music video; but the music and effects are, at best, window dressing (and, more often, annoying).DVD Review: "It all moves so quickly now"
Summary: 4 Stars
William Gibson, speaking from the backseat of a limo while distracting, post-produced effects play across the windows, offers his views on various aspects of modern and postmodern culture: the "spooky, post-geographical feeling" he gets when he withdraws money from an ATM; the "prosthetic nervous system" our society has been growing for the last hundred years; the extent to which people are unaware that they've been "interpenetrated and co-opted by their technology"; our inaccessibility to the non-mediated world (of perceptions); the importance of the acceptance of this life ("this is it; this is not a rehearsal"); his realization that drugs serve only to "tweak the incoming data," and as such are simply "a wank"; et cetera. Interspersed with these monologues are biographical bits that would be of interest to fans of his books.
The ideas here are for the most part interesting, but don't expect too much in the way of deep, original insights or profound observations. Many of the monologues start out great, and you're just waiting for it to go somewhere, but then the subject changes. Gibson, however, has a knack for catchy phrases as well as an interesting vocal delivery. He _sounds_ like he's saying something profound.
Here are a couple of excerpts:
On religion:
"I remember consciously rejecting it at some point when I was twelve or thirteen or fourteen years old, insofar as I decided that whatever might be going on, it wasn't going on for me in the church. That wasn't where it was happening. And that's continued as a constant for me... although I think that it can, whatever it is, it can happen there, perhaps in spite of all odds. I think of religions as franchise operations, sort of like chicken franchises. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right? It's difficult to articulate. Actually by the time you get it reduced to something that you can talk about, you don't really have anything. Language is such an extraordinary thing, but at the same time, it just like big monkeys standing up and making noises that sound like God. [Laughs] What does that convey?"
On the internet:
"We're using technology to extend the human nervous system. The internet is a kind of global prosthetic extension of human consciousness. It wasn't consciously intended as one, but it amounts to one. The internet, if one could see its totality, would be a very profound expression of what it is to be human today. It's become the place where we do everything. It's become the place where we look for everything. We're doing something new here. It resembles something we've done before, but it's different. I think it's probably as big a deal as the creation of cities."
DVD Review: Riding around with an exceptional and modest man
Summary: 5 Stars
I came to this documentary cold with no experience of William Gibson. The documentary is 90 minutes of listening to Gibson talk -- which suited me! He has fascinating insights into the Internet, into the changing concepts of "Time and Space" in our reality. He is reflective and insightful ... I realized as I watched we really don't know exactly where we are headed or what our reality will become as we travel faster and faster into the unknown.
At one point Gibson compares our age to the Victorian Age and as he described it I imagined Victorians had their world view blown away the first time they traveled by train; getting somewhere in a day when previously it would have taken a week. A Changing Concept of Time and Space (and of Reality) happened then, and it is happening to us now.
The filming looks casual.(it seems often Gibson forgot he was being filmed) It gave me the feeling of what it would be like to listen to Gibson in person. Not very pretentious...but very enlightening...a modest man with exceptional insights.
DVD Review: Great film for gibson fans
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great film for any fan of gibson's work. Its basically a long interview in a limo on the road. Bono from U2 even makes an appearance reading Neuromancer!
Description of William Gibson - No Maps for These Territories
On an overcast morning in 1999, William Gibson, father of cyberpunk and author of the cult-classic novel Neuromancer, stepped into a limousine and set off on a road trip around North America. The limo was rigged with digital cameras, a computer, a televisConsider yourself lucky if you've ever had a traveling companion as fascinating as William Gibson is in No Maps for These Territories. British documentarian Mark Neale found a perfect conceptual approach to this wide-ranging visit with the founding father of "cyberpunk" science fiction: On a rainy day in 1999, and for several sessions afterwards, Neale drove Gibson around various North American locations in a limousine equipped with sound and video gear, pointing his mini-cams at nothing but Gibson and the passing world outside. Then Neale went a step further, incorporating a superb soundtrack by Tomandandy with readings of Gibson's trend-setting fiction (by U2's Bono, writer Jack Womack, and others), and combining this with digital composites of changing imagery through the limo's windows.
The result is a fitting context to reflect upon the technology, ideas, and concepts that dominate Gibson's fiction. Fellow cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling is also interviewed, and Gibson's reflections on Neuromancer are essential, but Gibson also describes his need to distance himself from that breakthrough novel, and his other topics--post-humanity, the "mediated" world, drugs, the birth of cyberpunk, technology and pornography, his method of writing, and much, much more--combine to provide a definitive portrait of Gibson on the cusp of a new millennium, as the real world evolves to resemble the world of his fiction. Deleted scenes, additional readings, and behind-the-scenes featurettes add extra dimension to this thoughtful and stimulating DVD. --Jeff Shannon
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