Film Review – Visitors

Director Godfrey Reggio has built a career out of the observation of our world. In “Koyaanisqatsi,” “Powaqqatsi,” and “Naqoyqatsi,” Reggio created rhythmic hymns to the hustle and bustle of Earth, isolating its movement, grace, and oddity while critiquing humanity’s capacity for hostility and destruction. He turned experimental filmmaking into event movie excitement, mastering a specialized perspective that awes and concerns, scored with aplomb by Philip Glass. With “Visitors,” Reggio returns to his cinematic perch, only instead of absorbing the enormity of life, he focuses on the nuances of emotion and industrial texture, assembling a black and white odyssey across faces and places, soaking up every last detail his subjects are willing to share. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com