THE QATSI TRILOGY



Hrm I just wrote 400 words on this and then lost them. So I'm gonna do a cut'n'paste from here. I'm talking about three movies.

KOYAANISQATSI - "KOYAANISQATSI, Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. The musical score was composed by Philip Glass."

POWAQQATSI - "POWAQQATSI's overall focus is on natives of the Third World -- the emerging, land-based cultures of Asia, India, Africa, the Middle East and South America -- and how they express themselves through work and traditions. What it has to say about these cultures is an eyeful and then some, sculpted to allow for varied interpretations."

NAQOYQATSI - "Na-qoy-qatsi: (nah koy' kahtsee) N. From the Hopi Language. 1. A life of killing each other 2. War as a way of life. 3. (Interpreted) Civilized violence. -end credit definition from the feature film "Naqoyqatsi". More important than empires, more powerful than world religions, more decisive than great battles, more impactful than cataclysmic earth changes, NAQOYQATSI chronicles the most significant event of the last five thousand years: the transition from the natural milieu, old nature, to the "new" nature, the technological milieu."

So yeah you can get the first two on one DVD apparently, I'm gonna go find it some time this week I'd say. Should be interesting.