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Documentaries like Powaqqatsi

Not everyone loves Powaqqatsi for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Powaqqatsi

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  1. You like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.

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

  3. You like feeling the scale of human labour across continents.

Picks that share your reasons

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  • Lessons of Darkness1992

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

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

  • Human2015

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you like aerial images of the Earth that hold you still.

  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey2017

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • feeling the scale of human labour across continents

    Good for you if you like feeling small in front of billions of years.

  • Naqoyqatsi2002

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you like letting images wash over you for an hour and a half.

  • Heima2007

    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

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

  • Koyaanisqatsi1983

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film

    Good for you if you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half.

  • Pina2011

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film
    • feeling the scale of human labour across continents

    Good for you if you like dancers filmed in factories, parks and on a hanging train.

  • Baraka1992

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film
    • feeling the scale of human labour across continents

    Good for you if you want ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film.

  • For All Mankind1989

    • a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film
    • feeling the scale of human labour across continents

    Good for you if you like seeing Earth from the Moon in real footage.

  • Encounters at the End of the World2008

    • feeling the scale of human labour across continents

    Good for you if you like silent dives beneath the Antarctic ice.

  • Winged Migration2001

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • feeling the scale of human labour across continents

    Good for you if you like flying wing to wing with geese above the clouds.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey1968

    • faces and crowds filmed in slow motion
    • feeling the scale of human labour across continents

    Good for you if you like spaceships waltzing to the Blue Danube in perfectly composed frames.

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