SummaryDirector Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) returns after ten years with a new experimental film unlike any other from his career: a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one. Featuring a score composed by Reggio’s longtime collaborator Philip Glass with additional vocals from Sussan Deyhim.
Directed By:Godfrey Reggio, Jon Kane
Written By:Godfrey Reggio
Once Within a Time
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Oct 15, 2023
90
Once Within a Time runs 52 minutes, and it’s so lovely, funny, and charming that it feels like 15. But when it’s over, you feel like you’ve seen the world.
Oct 13, 2023
75
Clocking in at 51 minutes, the film is all mood, all rhythm, with a kaleidoscope structure and undulating ever-shifting visuals in a constant state of flux. It's not a "story" so much as a tone-poem collage about technology, knowledge, innocence/experience, and the potential end of the world.
Oct 9, 2023
75
The film proposes that, in the search for viable alternatives to techno-fascism and climate apocalypse, we might look to the margins of our world, to unfulfilled experiments (including those of cinema) and cultures supposedly left behind by history.
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Production Company:
- Opticnerve
Release Date:Oct 13, 2023
Duration:52 m
