Naqoyqatsi
When Koyaanisqatsi first came out I was too young to drive. There was a film festival in the city and I got my mum to drive me up. I forget what it was we originally went to see because we decided to stick around for another film, and that film turned out to be the first part of Godfrey Reggio’s astonishing trilogy. Talk about blowing your mind.
I’m not sure what my mum thought about it, but I was hooked. Some years later, after I’d moved to the city and Koyaanisqatsi had settled into a late-night art-house run, I saw it a few times a week for what must have been months. It wasn’t just that I was smoking a lot of pot at the time – the film had a real hold on me.
Now the third part of the trilogy has been released, and while I’ll be seeing this one in an altogether more sober state of mind, I’m looking forward to it just as much.
Motion-picture poetry that explores life
David Sterritt, Christian Science MonitorAt a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism American moviemaking ever had, Godfrey Reggio’s career shines like a lonely beacon.
In the early 1980s, he started a trilogy that would break every mainstream rule – no stories, no characters, no dialogue – but would carry messages about contemporary life that he felt moviegoers needed to hear.
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Posted to Film • 2002.11.01 (Fri) • 14:50
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