Right in the middle of Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio's apocalyptic documentary tone poem after he has bathed us in torrents of retina-searing imagery, some sped up, some in time-lapse of Earth cannibalising and strip-mining itself a single, lonely, lost-looking man in a huge crowd stares deeply and directly into the camera lens. It's a shocking moment; a breach of some conventional compact between viewer and subject. But it's also an island of calm amid the chaos.
Faces dotted the other two parts of Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, Powaqqatsi and Nagoyqatsi (the names come from the Hopi language and the trilogy works around the Native American notion of the world as a once-perfect hoop, now irreparably broken), faces always anchoring a human perspective on the cosmic events.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/27/godfrey-regio-visitors-filmmaker-koyaanisqatsi
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