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Powaqqatsi
Documentary · 1988
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
The sides of Powaqqatsi
- Workers of the developing world in slow motion
- A Philip Glass score
- No words at all
Powaqqatsi is good for you if…
- you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.
- you like a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film.
- you like feeling the scale of human labour across continents.
Powaqqatsi is bad for you if…
- you need a story that moves forward.
- you need the images explained, and no one says a word.
About: labour · modernity · tradition
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