Powaqqatsi
Life in transformation
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4/29/1988Runtime
100 minsGenres
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An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
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A wordless visual meditation on the collision between traditional ways of life and industrialization, set to haunting music. Powaqqatsi unfolds as a poetic series of images that feels less like journalism and more like mourning.
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