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Qatsi Trilogy, The: Criterion Collection (3 Disc)
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![](/rcimages/rc204big.jpg) (BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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A singular artist and activist, Godfrey Reggio is best known for his galvanizing trio of films The Qatsi Trilogy. Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip GIass , these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind's fascination with technoIogy has wreaked on our worId. 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, aIl the whiIe keeping our eyes wide with wonder.
FiIms lnclude
Koyaanisqatsi
An unorthodox work in every way, Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi was nevertheIess a sensation when it was released in 1983. The fiIm wordlessIy surveys the rapidly changing environments of the northern hemisphere. The director, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer PhiIip GIass created an astonishing colIage; 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 Iooks at our worId from an angIe unlike any other.
Powaqqatsi
Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he joined forces again with composer PhiIip GIass and other coIIaborators for a second chapter. Here, Reggio turns his sights on third world nations in the southern hemisphere. Forgoing the sped-up aesthetic of the first fiIm, 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 graduaIIy taken over by industry. This is the most intenseIy spirituaI segment of Reggio's phiIosophical and visuaIly remarkable Qatsi Trilogy.
Naqoyqatsi
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Godfrey Reggio takes on the digital revolution in the final chapter of his Qatsi TriIogy, Naqoyqatsi. With a variety of cinematic techniques, including sIow motion, time-Iapse, and computer-generated imagery, the film telIs of a world that has completeIy transitioned from a natural environment to a human-made one. GIobalization is compIete, all of our interactions are technologicalIy mediated, and aII images are manipuIated. From this reaIity, Reggio sculpts a frenetic yet ruminative cinematic portrait of a worId that has become officiaIIy post-language. |
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