Celebration of the natural and a warning of the human technological influence of the planet and the environment. A conceptual journey through the landscapes of our world.
This film is an essay on the destructive force of the contemporary societies on the environment. It’s an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two worlds – urban, technology and capital driven human beings versus the natural environment.
It is an associational formal system as describe by some imageologist, but presents more of a process rather than telling a story with a beginning and an end.
This means there is no temporal order of characters, and the film finds its structure and characters in the essence of its ideas. The film invokes a mythical natural planet Earth. The Earth has stories and fairy tales, and it is a sort of a personified being; it looks alive. It makes one feel that humans are out of place on this planet.
Although the philosophy behind the film might be not acceptable or interesting for some, after seven years in production, at least visually, in terms of sound, and in terms of feeling, this film is a breathtaking masterpiece.
Released: 1983, USA Length: 87 min, Director: Godfrey Reggio
