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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 bein...

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Uniform Title:Powaqqatsi (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Golan-Globus (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Reggio, Godfrey, Glass, Philip, Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939-, Lucas, George, 1944-, Richards, Ken, Lawrence, Mel, Taub, Lawrence
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
Edition:Director-approved DVD special ed.
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 639.
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 641.
Subjects:
Technology and civilization.
Human ecology.
Progress.
Technology > Social aspects.
Civilization, Modern.
Developing countries > Social conditions.
Southern Hemisphere > Social conditions.
Social history.
Developing countries.
Southern Hemisphere.
Experimental films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Originally released as a documentary in 1988.
Issued as part of 3-disc box set (The Qatsi trilogy) with: Koyaanisqatsi; Naqoyqatsi.
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:DVD; region 1; NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Production Credits:Directors of photography, Graham Berry, Leonidas Zourdoumis ; editors, Iris Cahn, Alton Walpole ; music conductor, Michael Riesman ; music composer, Philip Glass.
ISBN:9781604656718 (box set)
1604656719 (box set)
9781604656756
1604656751