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	Naqoyqatsi - a film by Godfrey Reggio, music by Philip Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The vision of NAQOYQATSI is a world made in the image and likeness of the new divine, the computer - a world where unity is held in the vice of technological homogenization, the globalized world of techno-fascism, the age of civilized violence.
		NAQOYQATSI is presented by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, who was drawn to the film's vision of a brave new globalized world in which the coming battles include humans versus computers, money versus values and life versus its simulation.
		NAQOYQATSI is the third and final feature film in "The Qatsi Trilogy" which began with the groundbreaking "KOYAANISQATSI," a revelatory, kaleidoscopic view of clashing urban and natural landscapes in North America, and continued with "POWAQQATSI," a journey around the world unfolding primal traditions and the influx of new technology.
	www.spiritofbaraka.com /naqoy.aspx (1881 words)

	Lee's Movie Info - Naqoyqatsi DVD Review
		Naqoyqatsi is a hard project to review, as there is no plot and there are no characters; the feature is a collection of visual imagery montages supported by a musical score.
		Naqoyqatsi starts off on an interesting note and leads into cinematography shots that are very absorbing and almost imaginative, but the project lacks oomph during in between segments.
		Naqoyqatsi is an 80-minute collection of these montages, and while some of its material garners attention and fascination, the consistency rate is just not there.
	www.leesmovieinfo.net /Article.php?a=341 (314 words)

	NAQOYQATSI Film Home
		A motion picture experience beyond words, NAQOYQATSI merges the power of image and music to plunge into the heart of the hyperaccelerated, globally wired 21st century.
		Despite the film’s nonverbal nature, the ultimate effect of its starkly futuristic, computer-enhanced visual fabric is to get people talking about how technology is altering everything: media, art, entertainment, sports, politics, medicine, warfare, ethics, nature, culture and the very face of the human future.
		NAQOYQATSI depicts the ubiquity of technology in our world.
	www.naqoy.com /naqoy (173 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Words can't describe Naqoyqatsi
		Naqoyqatsi is a film, a concert, an art show and an experience unlike all others at the movies.
		Scored by Philip Glass and featuring goosebump-raising solos from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Naqoyqatsi is the third and last instalment in a trilogy that began with Koyaanisqatsi, which concerned city scapes versus natural landscapes and Powaqqatsi, Godfrey Reggio's account of the effect of new technology on primal traditions.
		Naqoyqatsi, from the Hopi language, translates as 'each-other-kill many-life.' It means: (1) A life of killing each other.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/N/Naqoyqasti/2002/11/08/pf-753733.html (369 words)

	Naqoyqatsi Listing at Box Office Prophets
		Naqoyqatsi is a Hopi word, the English translation of which appears after the colon in the films full title.
		In the QATSI tradition, the images follow a particular theme; in Naqoyqatsi, the theme is technology, and the filmmaker takes the viewpoint that technology is waging war on the so-called "natural" life.
		Naqoyqatsi is currently scheduled for a limited release in October.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /tickermaster/listing.cfm?tmID=670 (199 words)

	Box Office Prophets: Naqoyqatsi and the Qatsi Trilogy
		Naqoyqatsi is the third film in Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, which was born when 1983's stunning Koyaanisqatsi met with the kind of quiet popularity that serves to rescue the occasional masterpiece from art house obscurity.
		But even that subtitle is misleading, as Naqoyqatsi is not the extended meditation on mass human conflict (metaphorical or otherwise) that one might expect.
		And unlike the first Qatsi films, the images in Naqoyqatsi are comprised almost entirely of stock footage, some of which has actually already appeared in Koyaanisqatsi.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /moviereviews/qatsi.asp (1280 words)

	Naqoyqatsi- War Life
		NAQOYQATSI is a reflection on this singular event, where our subject is the medium itself, the wonderland of technology.
		It is in this sense that technology is NAQOYQATSI, a sanctioned aggression against the force of life itself - war life, a total - war beyond the wars of the battlefield.
		NAQOYQATSI takes us on an epical journey into a land that is nowhere, yet everywhere; the land where the image itself is our location, where the real gives way to the virtual.
	www.koyaanisqatsi.org /films/naqoyqatsi.php (289 words)

	PhilipGlass.com: Recordings: Naqoyqatsi
		Unlike its companion scores (Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi), Naqoyqatsi is unrelentingly acoustic, bringing a human presence to moving images that are digitally painful in their representation of sanctioned terror and civilized violence — the global technological order.
		The vision of Naqoyqatsi is a world where union is held in the vice of technological homogenization; an order at war with old nature, where unity is held in the mystery of diversity.
		From the point of view of the film, untellable is our world at war beyond the battlefield, a conflagration between old nature and new nature, a total war, the war of ordinary daily living.
	www.philipglass.com /html/recordings/naqoyqatsi.html (832 words)

	LVJeff reviews: Naqoyqatsi
		And although Naqoyqatsi, Reggio's final installment of what he has dubbed the "Qatsi Trilogy," ends in the same fashion, it has much less impact than the closing of its predecessors.
		Naqoyqatsi is assembled from stock footage and abstract cg-graphics -- every part of the movie feels scripted as result, like less a feeling of observational participation and more a feeling of being taken on a guided tour in a museum.
		Second, the warmth of humanity and the accessibility of tangible real-world experience is excised from this film, leaving behind a cold and impersonal impression.
	windowtothemovies.com /LV-naqoyqatsi.html (618 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review NAQOYQATSI movie by Godfrey Reggio written by Philip Glass, Godfrey Reggio
		"Naqoyqatsi" brings the lush image-and-music approach of "Koyaanisqatsi" to the subject of war, but the message is muddled.
		Three's a crowd in the guise of "Naqoyqatsi," the third and final chapter in experimental filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's trilogy contrasting natural and man-made civilizations.
		Nevertheless, "Naqoyqatsi" is an acquired taste that may exhilarate some viewers while leaving others confused, annoyed, or just plain bored.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2002/naqoyqatsi.php3 (418 words)

	Naqoyqatsi
		Like his earlier films, Reggio's Naqoyqatsi is wordless and non-narrative, relying on streams of images and a musical score by Philip Glass.
		Reggio describes Naqoyqatsi as an exploration of "tortured beauty" and hopes viewers begin to feel uneasy about the allure of the carefully constructed, market-researched images that they are asked to consume every day.
		The contradiction at the center of Naqoyqatsi -- the reliance on state-of-the-art technologies in an attack on technological advances -- doesn't bother Reggio.
	www.linkoregon.com /naqoyqatsi.htm (631 words)

	INTERVIEW: Lone Giant: Godfrey Reggio's "Naqoyqatsi""
		Reggio's "Naqoyqatsi" completes a trilogy that includes the previous films "Powaaqatsi" and "Koyaanisqatsi." Like its predecessors, "Naqoyqatsi" is a visual symphony teeming with beauty and assault to Glass' transcendent score, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
		In the case of "Naqoyqatsi," director/producer Steven Soderbergh, who called the film "an explosion of ideas and imagery; a riveting, rigorous, provocative, and breathtaking exploration," became paramount in getting the film finished and into theaters.
		Reggio: We went on location to shoot "Koyannisqatsi" and "Powaqqatsi." "Naqoyqatsi" is 100 percent original photography, but it's a little bit tricky: Because of the subject matter -- "Naqoyqatsi" has to do with globalization, technology, the world of virtuality -- I felt it was very important that the location be commensurate with the subject matter.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Reggio_GOD_021018.html (2307 words)

	Amazon.com: Naqoyqatsi (Score): Music: Philip Glass,Yo-Yo Ma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		"Naqoyqatsi" (Hopi for "Life as War") is the soundtrack for the final part of the "Qatsi" trilogy of films by Godfrey Reggio.
		Naqoyqatsi is not exactly like anything he's done before; it is refreshingly unique.
		While Naqoyqatsi is probably the weakest film, the music is not only the best of the trilogy, but also one of Glass' best works, period.
	www.amazon.com /Naqoyqatsi-Score-Philip-Glass/dp/B00006L3LH (1416 words)

	Naqoyqatsi Soundtrack
		Naqoyqatsi ("Life As War") completes filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's artul "non-verbal" documentary trilogy, which includes 1983's Koyaanisqatsi ("Life out of Balance") and 1987's Powaqqatsi ("Life in Transformation").
		Naqoyqatsi is currently showing in theatres in only a handful of venues, but its soundtrack is already available everywhere.
		"Naqoyqatsi", the title track, with its urgent orchestral pulses, human heartbeat and deep bass chanting, is eerie and spine-tingling.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Nov02/naqoysoundtrack.htm (310 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of Naqoyqatsi (2003), *** (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Naqoyqatsi is the long awaited third film in the Qatsi trilogy, which director Godfrey Reggio began in the early 1980s.
		Naqoyqatsi sets itself apart by being darker than the other two, both literally and metaphorically.
		I still say that Naqoyqatsi is the weakest of the three films, but I reserve the right to change my mind after I see it again, which I can’t wait to do.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/naq_bm03.shtml (706 words)

	Naqoyqatsi
		Naqoyqatsi, the long-awaited third movie in the non-narrative "qatsi" trilogy, is mystifying, inspiring and overwhelming in turns.
		In contrast to the first two movies, Naqoyqatsi uses a high percentage of stock footage, although some original film was shot in Detroit and New York.
		Another difference is that many of the images in Naqoyqatsi are digitally manipulated and purposely obscured.
	www.rambles.net /naqoyqatsi02.html (515 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Naqoyqatsi
		Naqoyqatsi is a subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age.
		Godfrey Reggio is a resistance fighter who sees much that is dehumanizing and dangerous to the human soul in the so-called progress of science and technology.
		Of course, this is not surprising when one learns that the director spent 14 years in silence and prayer as a member of a contemplative religious order before coming up with the idea of the Qatsi trilogy.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_5222.html (782 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Naqoyqatsi \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		After all, even if it is feature length, "Naqoyqatsi" is little more than just a series of moving images — only some of which are as compelling as filmmaker Godfrey Reggio intends them to be.
		And unlike the other two movies in Reggio's trilogy (conceptualized, as is this one, with composer Philip Glass), "Naqoyqatsi" seems a little fuzzy and indistinct.
		"Naqoyqatsi" is rated PG for snippets of violent news footage (including scenes of warfare), as well as brief glimpses of nudity (male) and some nude artwork.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,330000201,00.html (372 words)

	Naqoyqatsi - A Film by Godfrey Reggio
		One night when I was walking home from work I noticed a stalled bus on Van Ness, and a group of young people talking on the corner.
		And counterpoised against that are chastely erotic pictures of men and women smiling, touching, kissing, deflected and mediated by their appearance on a screen, but seeming nevertheless like something we've lost.
		Though the composer has been involved every step of the way with this project, he wrote the music only last year, from winter to summer, and it was recorded at the end of the year, with Ma's solos done separately this January.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Naqoyqatsi.html (810 words)

	Naqoyqatsi - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Despite its likeness to two predecessors, "Naqoyqatsi" arrives so late in the cycle of "head trip" films, it falls into a newer category: music videos.
		"Naqoyqatsi," which has been in production off and on for a decade, means "war as a way of life."
		Before The Oaks screening of "Naqoyqatsi" on Monday, there will be a performance by Life in Balance, one of Pittsburgh's most unusual musical entities.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_116969.html (495 words)

	Naqoyqatsi - Philip Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Naqoyqatsi is Hopi for 'Life as War' in some reference to the ongoing attempts to make the world 'civilized' from a technical standpoint, whether certain parts of the world want our way of thinking or not.
		Where Koyaanisqatsi was very synthetic and regimented and Powaqqatsi edged with a sweep of world music ideas, Glass has written the music to Naqoyqatsi as the human soul of the film.
		The titular opening track hints at the previous scores, with a deep chorus intoning 'Naqoyqatsi,' but after that, the orchestral takes over in what could be deemed a more traditional sounding score than Glass has written previously.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/naqoyqatsi.htm (593 words)

	Naqoyqatsi and Descent Into The Maelström by Philip Glass @ Cinemusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		While the films have gained recognition for their jarring visualizations and juxtapositions of international cultures, Glass's pulsating, moving scores helped to place minimalism at the forefront of modern composition.
		of Naqoyqatsi, the third and final installment, Glass has returned to old ground to produce a rather tired and unrelenting finale to an altogether brilliant series of experimental films.
		Beginning with 1982's Koyaanisqatsi (which is Hopi for "life out of balance"), Glass's trademark triads, syncopated riffs, and repetitive figures of modern minimalism forged a new film music sound, mixing electronica with primitive orchestral elements and tribal sounds.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2002/naqoyqatsi.html (789 words)

	Naqoyqatsi (2002) Movie Review by Kyle Smith at The Movie Insider
		Naqoyqatsi is the third film in the Qatsi trilogy, a series of films conceived by director Godfrey Reggio that all feature music by the minimalist Philip Glass.
		Naqoyqatsi (fourteen years in the making and now supported by Steven Soderbergh and the cronies at Miramax) seeks to close the trilogy with a bleak view of our advanced future—one Reggio sees as endless conflict: “Naqoyqatsi” is translated from Hopi as “a life of killing each other.”
		Naqoyqatsi is the definitive post-modern masterpiece, an enthralling document of modern consumer culture too preoccupied with eating itself alive that it misses the beauty of our natural universe.
	www.themovieinsider.com /mr226-naqoyqatsi-movie-review.html (922 words)

	Amazon.com: Naqoyqatsi: DVD: Henry Kissinger,Troy Aikman,Julia Louis-Dreyfus,Greg Louganis,The Beatles,Bill ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		We even have a double-image of Dolly the cloned sheep intercut with shots of human eggs being artificially fertilized, followed by a big digital pull-back of lots and lots of naked babies, who are really the same four or five babies repeated endlessly.
		Naqoyqatsi intends to muse on our planet's war culture but get often mixed up with an ulterior commentary on technology (Although what I saw may not have been a final cut).
		Naqoyqatsi could have been the best in the series since it had ample opportunity to show us the horrors of war.
	www.amazon.com /Naqoyqatsi-Godfrey-Reggio/dp/B00005JLIA (1773 words)

	A Mind-Blowing, In-Body Experience (washingtonpost.com)
		"NAQOYQATSI" IS filmmaking at its purest and most visceral – a tale full of sound and visual fury, signifying, if not exactly nothing, then something not so readily articulated in words.
		At times painful to watch, at times as gentle as an Eskimo kiss, the film slowly softens your resistance to its lack of narrative by means of a nonstop barrage of often surreal imagery accompanied only by composer Philip Glass's chanting, swirling, droning, pounding score.
		Although scenes of soldiers figure prominently here, and the film's pacifist politics are pretty clear, the violence in question is more metaphorical, a kind of poetic allusion to the desecration that technology itself has inflicted on, well, pretty much everything, from our quality of life to the creation of life itself.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=style/movies/reviews&contentId=A53971-2002Nov14¬Found=true (469 words)

	She Likes DVDs reviews Naqoyqatsi; DVD reviews for women from a woman's point of view
		Naqoyqatsi swirls across the screen as image ballet set to beautiful music.
		Naqoyqatsi is subtitled "Life is War" and that is the theme of the images: broken buildings, cavernous rooms, math gone mad in the universe, cloning, crash testing, and many others.
		The film doesn’t so much try to chronicle the effect of these events on the world but instead it tries express the devastation that is caused by technology unchecked.
	www.shelikesdvds.com /Reviews/naqoyqatsi.htm (727 words)

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