"Director: Godfrey Reggio"

• Koyaanisqatsi | Blu Ray | (15/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  KO YAA NIS QATSI ko?yaa?nis?qatsi (from the Hopi language) n., 1. crazy life 2. life in turmoil 3. life out of balance 4. life disintegrating 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living Told without dialogue, narration, cast or characters, Koyaanisqatsi is a dizzying, hypnotic example of cinema set to an extraordinary score by Philip Glass. It contrasts natural beauty with a population ever more dependent on modern technology. Shot on a low budget in New York City and the American South West, the film found support from Francis Ford Coppola where it found a larger audience and has gone on to become a cult classic. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Restored digital transfer, approved by director Godfrey Reggio, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio Introduction by filmmaker and composer Gary Tarn (Black Sun, The Prophet) Essence of Life Interviews with Reggio and composer Philip Glass Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork

• Koyaanisqatsi/ Powaqqatsi Double Pack | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £35.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Prepare for the ultimate DVD experience. Technically dazzling photographic effects, superb cinematography, and stirring musical scores combine to create two of the most extraordinary and breathtaking films in recent years. Influencing untold pop promos and TV commercials, these visual tour-de-forces are released to buy as a DVD box set. Koyaanisqatsi First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary from 1983 - shot mostly in the desert Southwest and New York C...

• Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi ("life out of balance") and Powaqqatsi ("life in transformation") are the first two parts of a trilogy of experimental documentaries whose titles derive from Hopi compound nouns (2002's Naqoyqatsi, or "life in war", is the third). Both feature indispensable musical contributions from minimalist composer Philip Glass. Made in 1983, Koyaanisqatsi was shot mostly in the desert southwest USA and New York City on a tiny budget with no script. But it then attracted the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and reached a much wider audience. Its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass' reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic)--as well as its ecology minded imagery--crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of Koyaanisqatsi has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements, music videos and, of course, similar movies. Dating from 1988, Powaqqatsi finds the director somewhat more directly polemical than before, with Glass's score stretching to embrace world music. Reggio reuses techniques familiar from the previous film (slow motion, time-lapse, superposition) to dramatise the effects of the so-called First World on the Third: displacement, pollution, alienation. But he spends as much time beautifully depicting what various cultures have lost--cooperative living, a sense of joy in labour and religious values--as he does confronting viewers with trains, airliners, coal cars and loneliness. What had been a more or less peaceful, slow-moving, spiritually fulfilling rural existence for these "silent" people (all we hear is music and sound effects) becomes a crowded, suffocating, accelerating industrial urban hell, from Peru to Pakistan. Reggio frames Powaqqatsi with a telling image: the Serra Pelada gold mines, where thousands of men, their clothes and skin imbued with the earth they're moving, carry wet bags up steep slopes in a Sisyphean effort to provide wealth for their employers. While Glass juxtaposes his strangely joyful music, which includes the voices of South American children, a number of these men carry one of their exhausted comrades out of the pit, his head back and arms outstretched--one more sacrifice to Caesar. Nevertheless, Reggio, a former member of the Christian Brothers, seems to maintain hope for renewal. --Robert Burns Neveldine

• Visitors | DVD | (21/07/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From Godfrey Reggio, the acclaimed director of Koyaanisqatsi, with a score from legendary composer, Philip Glass, Visitors is a mesmerising visual poem that explores ideas of humanity and nature through a series of beautiful and meticulously shot images. Presented by Steven Soderbergh, Visitors asks the question: who and what is a visitor when we look around ourselves on this planet? Shot in stunning 4k black and white, a transfixing and visual spectacle is created that calls upon the audience to find their own meaning. Offering something unlike anything ever seen before, Visitors is a truly unique and captivating piece of work.

• Naqoyqatsi | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Using montage techniques Naqoyqatsi combines forms of mass media altered with digital techniques to create a swirling chronicle of the influence of technology reflecting the ever increasing globalisation of the world and the societies contained within it.

• Naqoyqatsi | Blu Ray | (16/04/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, Traffic, 2000) presents Naqoyqatsi ('Life As War'), from filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, in collaboration with composer Philip Glass, whose original score features renowned cellist yo-yo Ma. in this cinematic concert - a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Koyaanisqatsi ('Life out of Balance'), and Powaqqatsi ('Life in transformation') – mesmerising images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered to chronicle the shift from a world organised by the principals of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique artistic experience that reflects Reggio's vision of a brave new globalised world.

• Powaqqatsi Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (15/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  PO WAQ QA TSI po?waq?qa?tsi (from the Hopi language, powaq sorcerer + qatsi life) n., an entity, a way of life, that consumes the life forces of other beings in order to further its own life Told without dialogue, narration, cast or characters, Powaqqatsi is a dizzying, hypnotic example of cinema set to an extraordinary score by Philip Glass. Godfrey Reggio's remarkable sequel to Koyaanisqatsi, his previous collaboration with Glass, focuses on the Southern hemisphere and witnesses ancient cultures and traditions slowly eroding away as the modern world takes over. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Restored digital transfer, approved by director Godfrey Reggio, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio Anima Mundi Reggio's 1992 short film, a 28-minute montage of over seventy animal species, scored by Philip Glass Impact of Progress Interviews with Reggio and Glass Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork

• Koyaanisqatsi+Powaqqatsi | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Told without dialogue narration cast or characters Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi are dizzying hypnotic examples of cinema set to extraordinary scores by Philip Glass. The first instalment concentrates on the United States contrasting its natural beauty with a population ever more dependent on modern technology. The second switches to the Southern hemisphere and focuses on cultures and traditions that are slowly eroding away as the modern world takes over. Special Features: New restored digital transfers of both films approved by director Godfrey Reggio 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Newly created exclusive content Newly commissioned artwork Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film archive content and more! More to be announced closer to the release date

• Naqoyqatsi | DVD | (22/02/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Using montage techniques Naqoyqatsi combines forms of mass media altered with digital techniques to create a swirling chronicle of the influence of technology reflecting the ever increasing globalisation of the world and the societies contained within it.

• Visitors | Blu Ray | (21/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Godfrey Reggio, the acclaimed director of Koyaanisqatsi, with a score from legendary composer, Philip Glass, Visitors is a mesmerising visual poem that explores ideas of humanity and nature through a series of beautiful and meticulously shot images. Presented by Steven Soderbergh, Visitors asks the question: who and what is a visitor when we look around ourselves on this planet? Shot in stunning 4k black and white, a transfixing and visual spectacle is created that calls upon the audience to find their own meaning. Offering something unlike anything ever seen before, Visitors is a truly unique and captivating piece of work.