Powaqqatsi Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 99 mins
- Year produced:
- 1988
- Director:
- Godfrey Reggio
- Cast:
- Christie Brinkley
- David Brinkley
- Dan Rather
This film is the follow-up to director Godfrey Reggio’s dazzling Koyaanisqatsi - and is similarly made up of a series of impressionistic moving images, sometimes shocking, at other times beautiful, of the world around us, set to a hypnotic Philip Glass score. But while that film was subtitled “Life Out of Balance” and depicted the western world, Powaqqatsi (the word means, roughly, ‘parasite’) is “Life in Transformation” – and concentrates on the industrialisation of the developing world, where many of the rituals and traditions shown here are disappearing fast.
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Fascinating facts
Whereas composer Philip Glass created his soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi after the film had been shot, for Powaqqatsi he accompanied director Godfrey Reggio as he scouted for locations and began the composing process then.