Powaqqatsi (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
720p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1280 x 690 | x264 @ 7855 Kbps | 99 min | 6,53 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Art-house, Documentary, Musical
720p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1280 x 690 | x264 @ 7855 Kbps | 99 min | 6,53 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Art-house, Documentary, Musical
Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he again joined forces with composer Philip Glass and other collaborators for a second chapter. Here, Reggio turns his sights on third-world nations in the Southern Hemisphere. Forgoing the sped-up aesthetic of the first film, Powaqqatsi employs a meditative slow motion in order to reveal the beauty of the traditional ways of life in those parts of the planet, and to show how cultures there are being eroded as their environments are taken over by industry. This is the most intensely spiritual segment of Reggio’s philosophical and visually remarkable Qatsi Trilogy.
IMDB
Koyannisqatsi wasn't a copy of anything, so why would anyone expect Powaqqatsi to be a copy of it? Fortunately, I saw this film on the big screen without seeing its predecessor, and I was delighted. The movie begins with a shot of an African diamond mine. You see a miner ascending a ladder in slow-motion, carrying a bag of mud on shoulders, accompanied by a heavy, pounding music. The effects and the music work together to highlight the miner's tiredness and strain. Other images follow, most of them from the "third world." In each case the focus is not a thing, but a quality.
Powaqqatsi revolutionized my concept of the world – Go ahead and laugh! The film shows a vastness and variety and energy in the world that was beyond anything I could have imagined when I went into the theater. Everything is presented for what it is; there's no Western narrator to reassure you and tell you what everything means. There is perhaps no higher praise for a film than saying it changed the way I think, and Powaqqatsi deserves that praise.IMDB Reviewer
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
The Qatsi Trilogy:
- Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
- Powaqqatsi (1988)
- Naqoyqatsi (2002)