Red Emma’s

1988 - Directed by Godfrey Reggio - 90 minutes 7pm - Wednesday, 4th November 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. POWAQQATSI's overall focus is on natives of the Third World -- the emerging, land-based cultures of Asia, India, Africa, the Middle East and South America -- and how they express themselves through work and traditions. What it has to say about these cultures is an eyeful and then some, sculpted to allow for varied interpretations. POWAQQATSI is also about contrasting ways of life, and in part how the lure of mechanization and technology and the growth of mega-cities are having a negative effect on small-scale cultures. To be certain, POWAQQATSI is a record of diversity and transformation, of cultures dying and prospering, of industry for its own sake and the fruits of individual labor, presented as an integrated human symphony -- and with Philip Glass' score providing the counterpart, performed with native, classical and electronic instruments, its tribal rhythms fused by a single magisterial theme.