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Powaqqatsi Explores Antiquity
Produced by Mel Lawrence
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
Leonidas Zourdoumis & Graham
directors of photography

by Leonidas Zourdoumis
How to

photograph the old world
edge by the new for

with which to record
cient worlds.

Godfrey Reggio's second unusual

ancient

feature

naissance

a

those of the most modern

length film? In other words,
kind of requiem for antiquity

shown

through modernist eyes?
Powaqqatsi, a 90 minute non-verbal
of
ensuing

frescoes, bas relief, and
canvasses

re¬

intercut with

type,

qatsi. The film took us on a round
the world trip, through 12 coun¬
tries, carrying almost two tons of
equipment (including two complete
camera
systems).
In Serra

detailing harsh renderings of the
'real' world.

film, depicts the proliferation
Western culture and the

28

vanishing an¬
Images that resemble

driven to the

Following is
of events that Graham

chronolog
Berry and I,

a

Berry,

watched

as

gle file

a

Pelada, Brazil,

we

human ants covered the
entire hillside. They followed in sin¬

treacherous path made

displacement of indigenous ones. It
is a comprehensive camera package

co-directors of

slick with their sweat and the slime

rienced

oozing from their burdens. Heads

American

May 1988

Cinematographer

photography, expe¬
during the filming of Powaq-



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