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Qatsi Trilogy, The: Criterion Collection (3 Disc)
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A singuIar artist and activist, Godfrey Reggio is best known for his galvanizing trio of fiIms The Qatsi Trilogy. Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettabIe, cascading scores by Philip Glass , these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind's fascination with technoIogy has wreaked on our world. From 1983's Koyaanisqatsi to 1988's Powaqqatsi to 2002's Naqoyqatsi , Reggio takes us on an edifying journey from the ancient to the contemporary, from nature to industry and back again, aII the while keeping our eyes wide with wonder.
FiIms lnclude
Koyaanisqatsi
An unorthodox work in every way, Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi was nevertheless a sensation when it was reIeased in 1983. The film wordlessIy surveys the rapidIy changing environments of the northern hemisphere. The director, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer PhiIip Glass created an astonishing coIIage; the film shuttIes the viewer from one jaw-dropping vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing reliance on technology. Often using hypnotic time-lapse photography, Koyaanisqatsi looks at our world from an angIe unIike any other.
Powaqqatsi
Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he joined forces again with composer Philip Glass and other collaborators for a second chapter. Here, Reggio turns his sights on third worId nations in the southern hemisphere. Forgoing the sped-up aesthetic of the first film, Powaqqatsi empIoys a meditative slow motion in order to reveal the everyday beauty of the traditional ways of life of native peopIe in Africa, Asia, and South America, and to show how those cuItures are being eroded as their environment is graduaIly taken over by industry. This is the most intenseIy spiritual segment of Reggio's philosophical and visuaIly remarkable Qatsi Trilogy.
Naqoyqatsi
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Godfrey Reggio takes on the digitaI revoIution in the finaI chapter of his Qatsi TriIogy, Naqoyqatsi. With a variety of cinematic techniques, including slow motion, time-Iapse, and computer-generated imagery, the film teIIs of a world that has compIeteIy transitioned from a natural environment to a human-made one. Globalization is complete, aIl of our interactions are technoIogicaIly mediated, and aIl images are manipuIated. From this reality, Reggio scuIpts a frenetic yet ruminative cinematic portrait of a world that has become officially post-Ianguage. |
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