Naqoyqatsi from the Hopi language: "life as war".

Oh yes, another underrated 2002 film that was relegated to incompetent due to the use of computer imagery and for what? If Koyaanisqatsi is about the effect of technology over nature and humanity, our inherent desire of exploration of such and Powaqqatsi is the blending between humanity and technology; then is only logical that the third and last installment will declare its position offering a view embracing completely post-modern commentary through the lenses of the same criticized technology. 

The film opens up with aesthetics typical of modernism, the first 6 minutes showing for example the Michigan Central Station (founded in 1913) is smoothly replaced by all digital imagery generated by a computer.…

Immense. Meaning is at once rejected but inherent in the nature of the film, purpose is an object which Reggio crystallizes and then smashes to pieces, understanding is a concept enforced by humanity and we continually contradict ourselves in all manners... images are falsified and then realised, and then back again, the world we know is no longer familiar because Reggio aims to destroy anything close to familiarity. A platonic laugh, the whisper of a loving couple, the movement of athletes, a brief image of an erect penis, an x-ray of the human head - Naqoyqatsi is humanity (emotionally, formally, aesthetically) forced into a physical object. Images transmute into other images, these images of which define how we act as…

The apocalypse will be solarized; the images here, mostly repurposed from stock footage and TV commercials, are like repulsive, festering, cultural canker sores. Rubs your nose in the aesthetic poverty of our mass media for 90-minutes, so it's little wonder this one is the black sheep of the trilogy. Interesting how CGI has not really got any better looking as the decades have gone on, just more expensive looking.

With images this flimsy and brittle, Reggio leans on Glass like a feeble elder leaning on their caretaker's arm, and Glass is more than up to the task. At this point in his career, he has transitioned fully to Romantic symphonist stateman, and his work here is an extended cello concerto…

Naqoyaqatsi seems to be perceived by the majority as the weakest entry in Godfrey Reggio's dialogue-free Qatsi Trilogy. I strongly disagree.

While the first film, Koyaanisqatsi, might be most the complete of the three, Naqoyqatsi definitely is the boldest one – and that says a lot when following up on two films that set out to portray human existence and the development of modern civilizations.

Orchestrating Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, Reggio appeared to have the full overview of the world around him. 14 years after the second film, he seems to be overwhelmed – perhaps even scared – by the technological development that shapes our perception of reality by introducing a new, synthetic one.

This alienated feeling clearly shows in the visual style…

Koyaanisqatsi means “life out of balance”,
Powaqqatsi means “life in translation”,
& Naqoyqatsi means “life of killing”.

If there’s one thing I really love about this trilogy and what Godfrey Reggio did for it is that he definitely did not want to repeat himself throughout this series. Because of the time gaps in between each movie, it gives so much potential for new and innovative ways for the filmmakers to express the meaning of life in our modern world. Especially with Naqoyqatsi, having been over 10 years since the last one. Unfortunately this film falls in the same era within the trap that many films suffered from. Being in the early age of the computer generated effects. Much like the Star Wars…

Naqoyqatsi from the Hopi language: "life as war".

Oh yes, another underrated 2002 film that was relegated to incompetent due to the use of computer imagery and for what? If Koyaanisqatsi is about the effect of technology over nature and humanity, our inherent desire of exploration of such and Powaqqatsi is the blending between humanity and technology; then is only logical that the third and last installment will declare its position offering a view embracing completely post-modern commentary through the lenses of the same criticized technology. 

The film opens up with aesthetics typical of modernism, the first 6 minutes showing for example the Michigan Central Station (founded in 1913) is smoothly replaced by all digital imagery generated by a computer.…

𝘕𝘢𝘲𝘰𝘺𝘲𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘪 is very different from its two predecessors, and not in a good way. I think there are two factors that make it so.

The first - what was this supposed to be about? No, seriously, I just didn't get it, what I just watched were 90 minutes of seemingly random footage mixed with some CGI... stuff, I really can't describe it, it's not shocking or anything, it just kind of is there.

The second - both Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi were memorable for just how visually beautiful they were, and here, as I said, it's just... things. No thought-provoking scenes, no beautiful shots, nothing really.

And I'm not gonna lie, it bored me, it bored me to the point I…