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    Unique ID Code: 0000163410
    Added by: David Simpson
    Added on: 1/6/2014 21:24
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    Visitors

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    Running Time: 90 Mins
    Retail Price: £17.99
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    Content Type: Movie

    Synopsis:
    Famous for the Qatsi trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi, names taken from the Hopi language, director Godfrey Reggio has made another exquisite visual poem in Visitors, his first film in over a decade.

    If the Qatsi trilogy reflected on ideas of balance, transformation, and war, Visitors asks a very different question: Who and what is a visitor when we look around ourselves on this planet? Using this idea as a metaphysical departure for his visual reverie, Reggio takes us on a unique voyage into the mysteries and wonders of the universe.

    Shot in dazzling black and white, the film proves once again that Reggio is a visual genius, open to the magic of experience, masterly at editing his images into a work that calls upon its audiences to find their own meaning in the piece. More akin to music than narrative storytelling, Visitors creates moods and tones, allowing each of us to explore potential connections and associations. At times we enter an almost dreamlike state — notably with Reggio's meditation on human hands, as expressive as faces, interacting with technological tools (touchscreens, keyboards) that have been removed from the frame. The effect is mesmerizing, and Glass's score is a perfect complement.

    Special Features:
    The Making of Visitors Documentary

    Interviews with Director Godfrey Reggio, Producer Jon Kane, Composer Philip Glass and Steven Soderbergh

    Related Websites:
    http://visitorsfilm.com/
    http://www.distribution.metrodomegroup.com/multishophome

    Directed By:
    Godfrey Reggio

    Music From:
    Philip Glass

    Distributor:
    Metrodome Distribution

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