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Naqoyqatsi: Life as war is a documentary film released in 2002; it is the third and final film of the Qatsi trilogy by Godfrey Reggio. The film focuses on technology and the perceived lack of natural environments in industrialized society. , the first of the 'Qatsi' films, was released in 1983. The second, , was released in 1988. All three were scored by Philip Glass.
The name of the film is a Hopi word (written properly as naqö̀yqatsi) meaning "life of war".
In contrast to the first two parts, Naqoyqatsi was created not by filming in the real world, but by using archive footage and stock images, manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing workstations, and intercut with specially-produced CGI. Reggio described the process as " virtual cinema."
This movie once created a controversy regarding its production process. Since most of the archive footages and stock images were in 4:3 aspect ratio and yet the movie was presented in a widescreen format, the result was the entire movie presented in a distorted manner when a narrow picture is stretched sideway to fill a widescreen. One of the producers later explained in various forums in the Internet that the stretched images were aesthetic decisions and not production errors.
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2002 films
Documentary films
