NAQOYQATSI (WS)

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Plot: Miramax Home Entertainment and Academy Award -winning director Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, Traffic, 2000) present Naqoyqatsi ('Life As War'), from filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, in collaboration with composer Philip Glass, whose original score features renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In this cinematic concert - the concluding film of the Qatsi, Trilogy preceded by critically acclaimed Koyaantsqatsi ('Life Out Of Balance'), and Powaqqatsi ('Life In Transformation') - mesmerizing images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique artistic experience that reflects Reggio's vision of a brave new globalized world.
• Cast: Belladonna, Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Madonna, Bhagwan Mirchandani, Jack Shamblin, Steven Soderbergh, Troy Aikman, The Beatles, Osama bin Laden, Fidel Castro, Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton, The Dalai Lama, Thomas A. Edison, Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, Nikita Khrushchev, Martin Luther King, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Lenin, Greg Louganis, Jeff Maksym, Zedong Mao, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Swaggart, Godfrey Reggio
• Director: Godfrey Reggio
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Alliance Atlantis
• Media Format: Movie