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Release Date: 2002

Cast: Jack Shamblin, Bhagwan Mirchandani

Categories: Movies, Indie, Documentary, Experimental film, Political cinema, Avant-garde, Essay Film

Naqoyqatsi ( /nɑːkɔɪˈkɑːtsi/ NAH-koy-KAH-tsee), also known as Naqoyqatsi: Life as War, is a 2002 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio and edited by Jon Kane, with music composed by Philip Glass. It is the third and final film in the Qatsi trilogy. Naqoyqatsi is a Hopi word (more correctly written naqö̀yqatsi) meaning "life as war". While Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi examine modern life in industrial countries and the conflict between encroaching industrialization and traditional ways of life, using slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and natural landscapes, about... MORE

Naqoyqatsi ( /nɑːkɔɪˈkɑːtsi/ NAH-koy-KAH-tsee), also known as Naqoyqatsi: Life as War, is a 2002 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio and edited by Jon Kane, with music composed by Philip Glass. It is the third and final film in the Qatsi trilogy. Naqoyqatsi is a Hopi word (more correctly written naqö̀yqatsi) meaning "life as war". While Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi examine modern life in industrial countries and the conflict between encroaching industrialization and traditional ways of life, using slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and natural landscapes, about eighty percent of Naqoyqatsi uses archive footage and stock images manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing (non-sequential) workstations and intercut with specially-produced computer generated imagery to demonstrate society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based one. Reggio described the process as "virtual cinema". According to Reggio, the film has no screenplay per se, but three movements (like those of a symphony) with different themes:: The September 11 attacks against the World Trade Center took place very close to the film's production studio, impacting the LESS