Powaqqatsi [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / a Golan-Globus production ; a Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas ; written by Godfrey Reggio and Ken Richards ; produced by Mel Lawrence, Godfrey Reggio and Lawrence Taub ; directed by Godfrey Reggio.
Title from container. Originally released as a documentary in 1988. Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Godfrey Reggio; Impact of progress, an interview program with Reggio and composer Philip Glass on the collaboration; Inspiration and ideas, a new interview with Reggio about his greatest influence and teachers; public television interview with Reggio from 1989 about the trilogy; Anima mundi (1992), Reggio's twenty-eight-minute montage of footage of over seventy animal species, scored by Glass; trailer.
Summary:
Here, Reggio turns his sights on third-world nations in the Southern hemisphere. Forgoing the sped-up aesthetic of the first film, Powaqqatsi employs a meditative slow motion in order to reveal the beauty of the traditional ways of life in those parts of the planet, and to show how cultures there are being eroded as their environments are taken over by industry.
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