Feb 8, 2021
Shots of headlights in traffic, people going down escalators, whirring machinery in a factory, the Hoover dam, a lady smoking a cigarette, and a controlled demolition of a tenement high rise. All this is made at once familiar and deeply profound with sublime photography and a pulsing Philip Glass score. Godfrey Reggio’s first entry in the “qatsi” trilogy revels in the splendor of isolation and anonymity subjected onto humanity with our embrace of technology. Except everything looks delightfully(?) early 80s, so there might be some unintended nostalgia buttons being pressed for our hosts.