Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
Produced in 1983-88
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - American film
Genres
Contemporary Film • Art Documentaries • Natural World Documentaries • Transport & Travel Documentaries
Film Description
Double bill featuring two of the films produced by the acclaimed partnership of composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Godfrey Reggio - Koyaanisqatsi (1983) and Powaqqatsi (1988).
Koyaanisqatsi features American land and cityscapes, often shown in slow or fast motion, in a meditation on the American way of life as a 'life out of balance'. Powaqqatsi uses the same format but turns its attention to the question of a way of life that consumes the life forces of other beings in order to further itself.
These are visually stunning, mesmerising and innovative cinematic essays. Reggio is documenting a major change in human society - our shift from living in nature to living in technology. The films have no words because as he says, 'our language no longer describes the world in which we live'.
DVD Details
Certificate: PG
Publisher: MGM
Length: 179 mins
Aspect ratio: Widescreen
Region: 2
Cat No: 24379DVD
Format: DVD Colour
Subtitles: Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Turkish
DVD Extras
- Comprising Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi
- New interviews with director and composer
- 'Impact of Progress' featurette
- Original Theatrical trailers for the Qatsi trilogy.
Film Stills
Community Reviews
by Mike McCahill on 2nd January 2003
Godfrey Reggio’s musings on the state of the planet at the beginning and end
of the 1980s here get the DVD treatment, allowing you to experience the
director... Read on



















