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Powaqqatsi - Blu-ray


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Czech title:
Powaqqatsi
Title:
Powaqqatsi [USA, 1988]
Language:
CZ subtitles
Audio:
anglický anglický DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (hudební doprovod)
Country of origin:
USA
Lenght:
100 minut
Video:
16:9 1.85:1
Starring:
Directors:
EAN:
8595165343243
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The American film Powaqqatsi was made as the second part of a planned trilogy of distinctive documentaries by director Godfrey Reggio, set to music by composer Philip Glass, referring in their titles to the language of the Hopi Indian tribe ("Powaqqatsi" means something like "living at someone else's expense"). In 1983, Koyaanisqatsi, an attempt to take a comprehensive look at the contemporary face of industrialized America, had its world premiere. The filmmakers sought to present a picture of Third World life, people, and landscapes in a feature-length project of sorts, without the use of commentary. They observe the destruction of cultural and historical roots by the encroachment of civilization, which causes uniformity and the succumbing to mindless labor and an alienating system. While Powaqqatsi refers to a documentary with ethnographic and anthropological aims in its imagery, its organization (trick shots and editing rhythms subordinated to music) makes it an experimental film.

In keeping with Glass's minimalist music, the film is structured into simple sentences, each with its own logical and emotive meaning; the extraordinary, fascinating richness of the images each seemingly goes "against" the music, making the film a captivating spectacle. The main cinematographers of the film worked (besides Berlin and Paris) in Peru, Brazil, Egypt, Nepal, Israel, Kenya Hong Kong, India. Glass does not shy away from the influences of African, Brazilian and Peruvian music, and uses a rich array of indigenous instruments, human voice and civilizational movements, from whose clashes, as from the visual component, the shape of the world with its natural and unnatural relationships, influences and contrasts emerges. This extraordinary film was made at the instigation of the Institution for Regional Education, with the participation of Francis Coppola and George Lucas. It can be recommended as a wholly exceptional experience for all discerning viewers.

(Qatsi is a word of Indian origin, referring to life, while powaqa refers to those who prey on others The film confronts the affluence in the metropolises of the richest societies with the misery and impoverishment of the inhabitants of the Third World, especially India, Africa, Central and South America.) Reggio's immensely challenging project, a follow-up to his earlier film Koyannisqatsi, is not only a gripping documentary about the glaring contradictions on our planet, the threat of nuclear and ecological catastrophe, but above all a magnificent symphony about the transformations of life, about the close connection between man and nature and culture. The film is completely wordless, with the director's almost magical work with a lot of specially filmed documentary material and Philip Glass' symphonic music composed especially for the film as an equal substitute for commentary...



 


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