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Naqoyqatsi is a american film of genre Drama directed by Godfrey Reggio released in USA on 2 september 2002 with Marlon Brando
Naqoyqatsi (2002)
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Add to a movie listNaqoyqatsi (/nɑːkɔɪˈkɑːtsi/ NAH-koy-KAH-tsee), 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.
Naqoyqatsi is a Hopi word (more correctly written naqö̀yqatsi) meaning "life as war". In the film's closing credits, Naqoyqatsi is also translated as "civilized violence" and "a life of killing each other". 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".
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According to Reggio, the film has no screenplay per se, but three movements (like those of a symphony) with different themes:Actors
Marlon Brando
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Elton John
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Steven Soderbergh
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Madonna
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Qatsi trilogy
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