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Powaqqatsi - Life in Transformation

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Sequel of:

Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance

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Sequel:

Naqoyqatsi - Life as a War

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Original title: Powaqqatsi - Life in Transformation
Year: 1988
Running time: 99 min.
Country: United States
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Screenwriter: Godfrey Reggio, Ken Richards
Cast: Documentary
Music: Philip Glass
Cinematography: Graham Berry, Leonidas Zourdoumis
Producer: Golan-Globus Productions, NorthSouth, Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education
Genre: Documentary | Experimental Cinema. Nature. Poverty. Independent Film (US). Sequel
Movie Groups: Qatsi Trilogy
Synopsis: An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

Critics' reviews

"Reggio addresses the impoverished inhabitants of the southern hemisphere that are exploited in order to power the Metropolis-like nightmare that he made of American society in Koyaanisqatsi, and it has a stunning opening."

Chuck Bowen: Slant
"There are images of astonishing beauty in Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi, sequences when we marvel at the sights of the Earth, and yet when the film is over there is the feeling that we are still waiting for it to begin."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A mesmerizing cascade of sensuous sights and sounds."

Michael Wilmington: Los Angeles Times
"Watching it, you feel as if you were being forced at gunpoint to flip through hundreds and hundreds of back issues of National Geographic."

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"'Powaqqatsi', which is the second part of a planned trilogy, reaffirms Mr. Reggio's diligence and sincerity, though it does not signficantly advance his achievement."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"Much like the "new age" music of its Philip Glass score, 'Powaqqatsi' occupies an uncomfortable space somewhere between the aggressively avant-garde and the lullingly banal"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"A confused work -- both a compeling analysis of underdeveloped nations and a self-indulgent exercise in cinematic drudgery"

Juan Carlos Coto: Miami Herald

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Powaqqatsi - Life in Transformation

1988

Godfrey Reggio

7.2

(1,590)

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