Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
Score
Philip Glass's organ chants will haunt your dreams
Cinematography
Ron Fricke's time-lapse made cities look like cancer
Editing
Image collision editing that needs zero words
Director
Godfrey Reggio
Ed Asner
Self (archive footage)
Pat Benatar
Self
Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Chambers
Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Lou Dobbs
Self (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee
Self (archive footage)
Peter Sellers
Self (archive footage)
Thomas Dolby
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Francis Ford Coppola used his fame to get this distributed after seeing it at Radio City Music Hall.
The title is untranslatable Hopi; Reggio refused subtitles to force viewers into pure experience.
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