Naqoyqatsi
Naqoyqatsi DVD cover
Directed by	Godfrey Reggio
Produced by	Steven Soderbergh Godfrey Reggio et al.
Written by	Godfrey Reggio
Music by	Philip Glass
Cinematography	Russell Lee Fine
Editing by	Jon Kane
Distributed by	Miramax Films (USA)
Release date(s)	October 18, 2002
Running time	89 minutes
Language	English, Hopi
Preceded by	Powaqqatsi
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Naqoyqatsi: Life as war is a documentary film released in 2002; it is the third and final film of the Qatsi trilogy by Godfrey Reggio. The film focuses on society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based industrial environment. Polaroid by Michael Dare Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films. ... Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and Oscar-winning director. ... Polaroid by Michael Dare Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films. ... Polaroid by Michael Dare Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films. ... Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. ... Miramax Films is a film production and distribution brand that was a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before being bought out by The Walt Disney Company. ... is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Hopi is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona, USA, although today some Hopi are monolingual English speakers. ... Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation is the 1988 sequel to the experimental 1983 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi, by Godfrey Reggio. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... The Qatsi triology is an informal name given to a series of three films produced by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1983) Powaqqatsi: Life in transformation (1988) Naqoyqatsi: Life as war (2002) The titles of all three films are words from the language... Polaroid by Michael Dare Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films. ...

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance, the first of the "Qatsi" films, was released in 1982. The second, Powaqqatsi: Life in transformation, was released in 1988. All three were scored by Philip Glass. Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. ... Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation is the 1988 sequel to the experimental 1983 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi, by Godfrey Reggio. ... Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. ...

Screenshot from Naqoyqatsi

The name of the film is a Hopi word (written properly as naqö̀yqatsi) meaning "life as war". Hopi is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona, USA, although today some Hopi are monolingual English speakers. ...

In contrast to the first two parts, the majority of Naqoyqatsi was created not by filming in the real world, but by using archive footage and stock images, manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing workstations and intercut with specially-produced CGI. Reggio described the process as "virtual cinema." A non-linear editing system is a video editing or audio editing system that can perform random access on the source material. ... SGI O2 Workstation A computer workstation, often colloquially referred to as workstation, is a high-end general-purpose microcomputer designed to be used by one person at a time and which offers higher performance than normally found in a personal computer, especially with respect to graphics, processing power and the... The seawater creature in The Abyss marked CGIs acceptance in the visual effects industry. ... The virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also denotations. ...

There was some controversy over the production process after the film was released on DVD. Since most of the archive and stock footage used in the film were shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, portions of the film were horizontally stretched to accommodate the wider aspect ratio used in the cinema and in the DVD transfer. One of the film's producers later explained in various Internet forums that the stretched image was an aesthetic decision and not a production error.^{[citation needed]} DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... For other uses, see Aspect ratio. ...

Synopsis

In the opening chapter, the first scene is a zoom in of the Tower of Babel as portrayed in the Bible, then, shots of Michigan Central Station from both interior and exterior are shown, followed by a black and white series of shots. One shot is one of a strong wave, followed by a mountain with an effect behind the mountains of stars falling like comets, then a natural scene, then a black and white animation of a mountain's framework growing is shown, after that, inverted, black and white, layered people are seen walking. Many lines come above the scene, and then the title is revealed in big, red writing. For other uses, see Bible (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Koyaanisqatsi
• Powaqqatsi
• Qatsi trilogy
• Baraka

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. ... Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation is the 1988 sequel to the experimental 1983 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi, by Godfrey Reggio. ... The Qatsi triology is an informal name given to a series of three films produced by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1983) Powaqqatsi: Life in transformation (1988) Naqoyqatsi: Life as war (2002) The titles of all three films are words from the language... Baraka (1992) is an experimental documentary film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio. ...

External links

 

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• The Trilogy's Home Page
• Official Miramax Films website for Naqoyqatsi
• Naqoyqatsi at the Internet Movie Database