2002 - Directed by Godfrey Reggio - 89 minutes
7pm - Wednesday, 2nd December
FREE screening. Refreshments available.
Part of the Comfy Chair Series of 2640 Docs: bring your own comfy chair (folding chair, bean-bag chair, beach lounger, or otherwise) to these long-form, image-heavy, narrative-light documentaries.
NAQOYQATSI takes us on an epic 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. As the gods of old become dethroned, a new pantheon of light appears in the integrated circuit of the computer. Its truth, becomes the truth.
Extremes of promise and spectacle, tragedy and startling hope fuse in a digital tidal wave of image and music [including an orchestral score by Philip Glass, featuring cellist Yo Yo Ma]. In a poetic nanosecond, NAQOYQATSI give utterance to a new world coming, a new world here.