Powaqqatsi : Life in transformation /
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 ar...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | English |
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
2012.
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| Edition: | Blu-ray ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
641. |
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| 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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| Item Description: | Title from container. Originally released as a documentary in 1988. Also issued in a boxed set entitled: Qatsi trilogy. 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. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Blu-ray Disc, region A, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; dts-HD Master Audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Audience: | Rating: G. |
| Production Credits: | Directors of photography, Graham Berry, Leonidas Zourdoumis ; editor, Iris Cahn, Alton Walpole ; music conductor, Michael Riesman ; music composer, Philip Glass. |
| ISBN: | 9781604656749 1604656743 |