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About
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
Theatrical
Apr 27, 1983
Box Office
$3.2M
Budget
$600K
Return
5.3x
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 17, 2002
Theaters
4
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
IRE Productions, Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education, American Zoetrope
Keywords
technology
civilization
human vs nature
rural area
social commentary
nature run amok
nature
environment
environmental destruction
lost civilization
observational cinema
environmental disaster
nature documentary
man vs nature
environmental catastrophe
observational documentary
poetic documentary
environmental documentary
human in nature
independent film
no dialogue
dying civilization
environmental collapse
Qatsi Collection
A series of three films produced by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass. The titles of all three films are words from the language of the Hopi people, in which the word "qatsi" means "life".
Cast
Full credits →E
Ed Asner
Self (archive footage)
P
Pat Benatar
Self
J
Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
D
Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
M
Marilyn Chambers
Self (archive footage)
S
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self (archive footage)
L
Lou Dobbs
Self (archive footage)
L
Linda Ellerbee
Self (archive footage)
P
Peter Sellers
Self (archive footage)
T
Thomas Dolby
Self (archive footage)
