#641: REGGIO, Godfrey: Powaqqatsi (1988)
THE QATSI TRILOGY {Spine #639}
An interview program with Reggio and composer Glass on their collaboration.
An interview with Reggio about his greatest influences and teachers.
Public television interview
With Reggio from 1989 about the trilogy.
Anima Mundi (1992)
REGGIO, Godfrey (United States)
Powaqqatsi [1988]
Spine #641
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he again joined forces with composer Philip Glass and other collaborators 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 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. This is the most intensely spiritual segment of Reggio's philosophical and visually remarkable Qatsi Trilogy.
99 minutes
Color
Color
5.1 Surround
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director
Godfrey Reggio was 48 when he directed Powaqqatsi.
Other Reggio films in the Collection:
#640: Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
#642: Noqoyqatsi (2002)
The Film
Other Reggio films in the Collection:
#640: Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
#642: Noqoyqatsi (2002)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Forty-page booklet featuring essays by Scott MacDonald, John Rockwell, and Bill McKibben.
Commentary
None.
Impact of Progress
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Forty-page booklet featuring essays by Scott MacDonald, John Rockwell, and Bill McKibben.
Commentary
None.
Impact of Progress
An interview program with Reggio and composer Glass on their collaboration.
Inspiration and Ideas
An interview with Reggio about his greatest influences 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.
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