Should you watch Naqoyqatsi?
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Naqoyqatsi
Documentary · 2002
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
The sides of Naqoyqatsi
- A wordless montage of a digital world
- A Philip Glass score with Yo-Yo Ma's cello
- Archive images reworked by computers
Naqoyqatsi is good for you if…
- you like letting images wash over you for an hour and a half.
- you like a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film.
- you like the third Qatsi film's strange computer-made imagery.
Naqoyqatsi is bad for you if…
- you need a story that moves forward.
- you want people talking, and nobody speaks here.
About: technology · violence · modern life
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