Imagine weird surveillance footage, sped up to ludicrous speeds and set to a propulsive Phillip Glass score and you get the idea for "Powaqqatsi," an experimental, non-narrative feature that Lucas lent his name to in order to secure funding. It might be the kind of thing that you watch in film school and never sit down to view again, but it’s an undeniably provocative, hypnotic affair, beautifully captured in a Criterion box set from a few years ago.
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