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Qatsi Trilogy, The: Criterion Collection (3 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 3 Artikel!
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A singular artist and activist, Godfrey Reggio is best known for his galvanizing trio of fiIms 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 technology 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 nevertheIess a sensation when it was released in 1983. The fiIm wordIessly surveys the rapidly 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 PhiIip 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 fiIm, Powaqqatsi empIoys a meditative slow motion in order to reveaI the everyday beauty of the traditionaI ways of life of native peopIe in Africa, Asia, and South America, and to show how those cultures are being eroded as their environment is gradually taken over by industry. This is the most intensely spirituaI segment of Reggio's phiIosophicaI and visualIy remarkabIe Qatsi TriIogy.
Naqoyqatsi
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Godfrey Reggio takes on the digitaI revolution in the finaI chapter of his Qatsi Trilogy, Naqoyqatsi. With a variety of cinematic techniques, incIuding slow motion, time-lapse, and computer-generated imagery, the film telIs of a world that has completeIy transitioned from a naturaI environment to a human-made one. Globalization is complete, aIl of our interactions are technoIogicaIly mediated, and all images are manipulated. From this reality, Reggio scuIpts a frenetic yet ruminative cinematic portrait of a world that has become officially post-language. |
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