[VISITORS
screens Friday May 2nd at 9:40 pm and Saturday May 3rd at 7:10 pm.)
Review
by Bob Ignizio
Leaving behind the hyperkinetic
time-lapse photography and vivid colors of their “Qatsi” trilogy
(KOYAANISQATSI: LIFE OUT OF BALANCE, POWAQQATSI: LIFE IN
TRANSFORMATION, and NAQOYQATSI: LIFE AS WAR) director
Godfrey Reggio and composer Phillip Glass go to the opposite extreme
for their latest sort of documentary collaboration, VISITORS.
While Glass' score is typically minimalistic and hypnotic, the
imagery here is in crisp, glossy black and white and composed mostly
of long, static takes of human faces, with the occasional bit of
architecture thrown in for variety every now and then.
