Naqoyqatsi
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| Naqoyqatsi | |
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 Naqoyqatsi DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Godfrey Reggio |
| Produced by | Steven Soderbergh Godfrey Reggio et al. |
| Written by | Godfrey Reggio |
| Music by | Philip Glass |
| Cinematography | Russell Lee Fine |
| Editing by | Jon Kane |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films (USA) |
| Release date(s) | October 18, 2002 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Language | English, Hopi |
| Preceded by | Powaqqatsi |
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Naqoyqatsi: Life as war is a documentary film released in 2002; it is the third and final film of the Qatsi trilogy by Godfrey Reggio. The film focuses on society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based industrial environment.
Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance, the first of the "Qatsi" films, was released in 1982. The second, Powaqqatsi: Life in transformation, was released in 1988. All three were scored by Philip Glass.
The name of the film is a Hopi word (written properly as naqö̀yqatsi) meaning "life as war".
In contrast to the first two parts, the majority of Naqoyqatsi was created not by filming in the real world, but by using archive footage and stock images, manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing workstations and intercut with specially-produced CGI. Reggio described the process as "virtual cinema."
There was some controversy over the production process after the film was released on DVD. Since most of the archive and stock footage used in the film were shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, portions of the film were horizontally stretched to accommodate the wider aspect ratio used in the cinema and in the DVD transfer. One of the film's producers later explained in various Internet forums that the stretched image was an aesthetic decision and not a production error.[citation needed]
[edit] Synopsis
In the opening chapter, the first scene is a zoom in of the Tower of Babel as portrayed in the Bible, then, shots of an abandoned building from both interior and exterior are shown, followed by a black and white series of shots. One shot is one of a strong wave, followed by a mountain with an effect behind the mountains of stars falling like comets, then a natural scene, then a black and white animation of a mountain's framework growing is shown, after that, inverted, black and white, layered people are seen walking. Many lines come above the scene, and then the title is revealed in big, red writing.
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[edit] External links
- The Trilogy's Home Page
- Official Miramax Films website for Naqoyqatsi
- Naqoyqatsi at the Internet Movie Database
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