Thursday 7th March 2013  7:00 PM

NAGB Film Series
Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)
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Thursday, March 7 at 7pm
"Naqoyqatsi: Life as War" is a 2002 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio and edited by Jon Kane, with music composed by Philip Glass. It is the third and final film in the Qatsi trilogy. Naqoyqatsi is a Hopi word (more correctly written naq?̀yqatsi) meaning "life as war".

In the film's closing credits, Naqoyqatsi is also translated as "civilized violence" and "a life of killing each other". Using slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and natural landscapes, about eighty percent of Naqoyqatsi uses archive footage and stock images manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing (non-sequential) workstations and intercut with specially-produced computer generated imagery to demonstrate society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based one. Reggio described the process as "virtual cinema".