Directed by:
Godfrey ReggioScreenplay:
Godfrey ReggioCinematography:
Russell Lee FineComposer:
Philip GlassCast:
Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Madonna, Steven Soderbergh, Osama bin Laden, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Tenzin Gyatso, Thomas A. Edison (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Godfrey Reggio takes on the digital revolution in the final chapter of his Qatsi Trilogy. Through a variety of cinematic techniques, including slow motion, time-lapse, computer- generated imagery, and found footage, the film tells of a world that has completed the transition from the natural to the artificial. Globalization has been accomplished, all of our interactions are technologically mediated, and all images are manipulated. From this (virtual) reality, Reggio sculpts a frenetic yet ruminative portrait of an era in which the cacophony of “communication” has rendered humankind effectively postlanguage. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Marlon Brando](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/512/164512286_c47563.jpg)
Marlon Brando
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
![Elton John](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/333/164333322_98ef4f.png)
Elton John
UK
Best movies:
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992) (concert)
Billy Elliot the Musical (2014) (theatrical recording)
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
![Julia Louis-Dreyfus](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/883/166883146_7f62b5.jpg)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
USA
Best movies:
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Christmas Vacation (1989)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
![Madonna](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/527/159527005_43bcd6.jpg)
Madonna
USA
Best movies:
The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2003) (video compilation)
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (video compilation)
![Steven Soderbergh](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269740_9d6f35.jpg)
Steven Soderbergh
USA
Best movies:
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
Contagion (2011)
![Osama bin Laden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/352/160352005_1044cf.jpg)
Osama bin Laden
Saudi Arabia
![Fidel Castro](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/156/158156504_fcde2f.jpg)
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Best movies:
Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015) - a.f.
The Eichmann Show (2015) (TV movie) - a.f.
![Bill Clinton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273483_3577e8.jpg)
Bill Clinton
USA
Best movies:
Contact (1997) - a.f.
Richard Jewell (2019) - a.f.
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) - a.f.
![Tenzin Gyatso](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278939_68632d.jpg)
Tenzin Gyatso
Tibet
![Thomas A. Edison](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272079_65172b.jpg)
Thomas A. Edison
USA
![Ronald Reagan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268088_13685b.jpg)
Ronald Reagan
USA
Best movies:
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Storm Warning (1951)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
![John Lennon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270684_27b846.jpg)
John Lennon
UK
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994) - a.f.
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003) (music video)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
![Paul McCartney](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/579/161579720_5eebdd.jpg)
Paul McCartney
UK
Best movies:
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
![George Harrison](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/098/165098654_567dea.jpg)
George Harrison
UK
Best movies:
Life of Brian (1979)
The Rutles in All You Need Is Cash (1978) (TV movie)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
![Ringo Starr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/098/165098655_82e12a.jpg)
Ringo Starr
UK
Best movies:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Go Go Mania (1965)
![Mao Zedong](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/901/157901388_7d94a1.jpg)
Mao Zedong
China
Best movies:
Nixon (1995)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) - a.f.
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
![Pope John Paul II](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/599/158599165_356ed1.jpg)
Pope John Paul II
Poland
Best movies:
Nineties (2022) (series) - a.f.
Karol. Człowiek, który został papieżem (2005) (TV movie)
Apparitions at Fatima (1992)
![Henry Kissinger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/950/157950001_8b835c.jpg)
Henry Kissinger
German Empire
Best movies:
Vice (2018) - a.f.
11'09''01 - September 11 (2002)
First They Killed My Father (2017) - a.f.
![Martin Luther King](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/950/157950050_035c14.jpg)
Martin Luther King
USA
Best movies:
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation)
JFK (1991)
The Doors (1991) - a.f.
![Adolf Hitler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271030_7b33cc.jpg)
Adolf Hitler (a.f.)
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation) - a.f.
The King's Speech (2010) - a.f.
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie) - a.f.