Naqoyqatsi (2002) on Netflix
PG20021h 29mDocumentaryMusic
Everyday images reworked with digital tools form a montage of the present world. Archive footage and computer-generated imagery carry three movements built on code, competition and war.
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Plot summary
Naqoyqatsi is a non-narrative film. Its three movements carry its argument. The first concerns language and place replaced by numerical code and virtual reality; the second treats competition, winning, records, fame and money as the highest values; the third and final movement looks at a world beyond what language can describe. Most of its images come from archive footage and stock material, processed digitally and intercut with computer-generated imagery to show a society trading a natural environment for a technology-based one, a process described as virtual cinema. The title is a Hopi word meaning life of war, also translated as civilized violence.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The September 11 attacks took place very close to Naqoyqatsi's production studio, which changed the film's content and convinced the crew of the importance of its subject.
- About eighty percent of Naqoyqatsi is archive footage and stock images manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing workstations and cut together with computer-generated imagery; Godfrey Reggio called the process "virtual cinema".
