Powaqqatsi
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.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Godfrey Reggio, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Impact of Progress, an interview program with Reggio and composer Philip Glass on their collaboration
- Inspiration and Ideas, a new 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
- Trailer
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Godfrey Reggio, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Impact of Progress, an interview program with Reggio and composer Philip Glass on their collaboration
- Inspiration and Ideas, a new 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
- Trailer
Credits
- Presented by
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Presented by
- George Lucas
- Director
- Godfrey Reggio
- Music
- Philip Glass
- Produced by
- Mel Lawrence
- Produced by
- Godfrey Reggio
- Produced by
- Lawrence Taub
- Executive producer
- Menahem Golan
- Executive producer
- Yoram Globus
- Music produced by
- Kurt Munkacsi
- Music conducted by
- Michael Riesman
- Directors of photography
- Graham Berry
- Directors of photography
- Leonidas Zourdoumis
- Edited by
- Iris Cahn
- Edited by
- Alton Walpole
- Written by
- Godfrey Reggio
- Written by
- Ken Richards
- Associate producers
- Marcel Kahn
- Associate producers
- Tom Luddy
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