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Naqoyqatsi (Motion picture)

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Uniform title headingNaqoyqatsi (Motion picture)
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Variant(s)Qatsi trilogy. Naqoyqatsi
See alsoFilm director: Reggio, Godfrey
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Sequel to: Powaqqatsi (Motion picture)
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Motion picture music (work): Glass, Philip. Naqoyqatsi
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Form of workMotion pictures Documentary films Feature films Nonfiction films Experimental films Musical films
Beginning date2002
Place of originUnited States
Found inGlass, P. Naqoyqatsi [SR] p2002.
Internet movie database, June 2, 2003 (Naqoyqatsi (2002))
Wikipedia, May 1, 2015: Naqoyqatsi (Naqoyqatsi, also known as Naqoyqatsi: Life as War, is a 2002 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; country: United States. 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.) Qatsi trilogy (The Qatsi trilogy is the informal name given to a series of three films produced by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1982); Powaqqatsi: Life in transformation (1988); Naqoyqatsi: Life as war (2002). The titles of all three films are words from the Hopi language, in which the word qatsi means "life.")