Dr William Alejandro Martin, Ph.D.

Like all three of the movies in Reggio's experimental Qatsi film-music media hybrid, this truly unique Qatsi film-music media hybrid (1982) is an absolute masterpiece Not incidentally, the two succeeding films -- Powaqqatsi (1988), released 6 years later (1988) and Part 3 - Naqoyqatsi (2002) released a full six and twenty years after the first - being . The inclusion of the score by Philip Glass, like the structure and theme of the Trilogy, itself, is a stroke of sheer genius. It may be almost 40 years old, but it's also one of a kind. Not unlike almost any film by Tarkovsky, the young Polanski, or Michael Haneke, its sheer exuberance to watch, and stays with one for some time to come.