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Documentaries like Naqoyqatsi

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The 3 reasons people love Naqoyqatsi

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  1. You like letting images wash over you for an hour and a half.

  2. You like a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film.

  3. You like the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Lessons of Darkness1992

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film
    • the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery

    Good for you if you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.

  • Powaqqatsi1988

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.

  • The Image Book2018

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half

    Good for you if you like images cut, saturated and set against each other.

  • Moonage Daydream2022

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film
    • the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery

    Good for you if you like Bowie's songs loud and woven through the whole film.

  • Encounters at the End of the World2008

    • the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery

    Good for you if you like Werner Herzog's odd questions to odd people.

  • Under the Sun2015

    • the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery

    Good for you if you like everyday life that feels staged and surreal.

  • Blue1993

    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film
    • the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery

    Good for you if you like a film that is only one colour and a voice.

  • Apocalypse Now1979

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you like images of war that look like a fever dream.

  • Heima2007

    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you love Sigur Rós and slow, soaring music.

  • Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii1972

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you like long psychedelic jams played live.

  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey2017

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half

    Good for you if you want galaxies, volcanoes and cells as pure images.

  • One More Time with Feeling2016

    • letting images wash over you for an hour and a half
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you like watching songs take shape in the studio.

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