Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to “Once Within a Time” from Godfrey Reggio, the experimental filmmaker behind the cult masterpiece “Koyaanisqatsi.”
The indie studio will release “Once Within a Time” theatrically in the fall of 2023, following its premiere as part of The Museum of Modern Art’s film series “Total Cinema of Sight and Sound: Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass,” which runs Sept. 26 – Oct. 4.
The movie is co-directed by Jon Kane, with original music is composed by Philip Glass with additional music and vocals by Sussan Deyhim. Glass, a legendary experimental composer, first worked with Reggio on “Koyaanisqatsi,” which was “presented” by Francis Ford Coppola in 1982. Reggio and Glass have collaborated on seven films over the last four decades, including “Visitors,” “Evidence,” and “Anima Mundi.”
“Once Within a Time” is produced by Mara Campione, and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Alexander Rodnyansky, Lawrence Taub, Michael Fitzgerald and Dan Noyes.
The indie studio will release “Once Within a Time” theatrically in the fall of 2023, following its premiere as part of The Museum of Modern Art’s film series “Total Cinema of Sight and Sound: Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass,” which runs Sept. 26 – Oct. 4.
The movie is co-directed by Jon Kane, with original music is composed by Philip Glass with additional music and vocals by Sussan Deyhim. Glass, a legendary experimental composer, first worked with Reggio on “Koyaanisqatsi,” which was “presented” by Francis Ford Coppola in 1982. Reggio and Glass have collaborated on seven films over the last four decades, including “Visitors,” “Evidence,” and “Anima Mundi.”
“Once Within a Time” is produced by Mara Campione, and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Alexander Rodnyansky, Lawrence Taub, Michael Fitzgerald and Dan Noyes.
- 7/12/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Submarine Entertainment has licensed UK rights for Godfrey Reggio’s Toronto special presentation Visitors to Metrodome and struck an Italian deal with Feltrinelli Films.
Cinedigm previously acquired all North American rights and plans a fourth quarter 2014 release while Films We Like will distribute in Canada.
The Ire Production in association with Optic Nerve, Noyes Films and Phi Films isReggio’s first film in more than a decade and explores humanity’s relationship with technology.
Reggio’s previous outings include the feted Qatsi documentary trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi.
Lawrence Taub, Reggio, Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso, Jon Kane and Mara Campione produced and Steven Soderbergh, Dan Noyes and Dean Chenoy served as executive producers.
David Koh and Dan Braun of Submarine and Taub negotiated the deals with Metrodome head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Feltrinelli managing director Anastasia Plazzotta.
Cinedigm previously acquired all North American rights and plans a fourth quarter 2014 release while Films We Like will distribute in Canada.
The Ire Production in association with Optic Nerve, Noyes Films and Phi Films isReggio’s first film in more than a decade and explores humanity’s relationship with technology.
Reggio’s previous outings include the feted Qatsi documentary trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi.
Lawrence Taub, Reggio, Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso, Jon Kane and Mara Campione produced and Steven Soderbergh, Dan Noyes and Dean Chenoy served as executive producers.
David Koh and Dan Braun of Submarine and Taub negotiated the deals with Metrodome head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Feltrinelli managing director Anastasia Plazzotta.
- 9/16/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
"Koyaanisqatsi" filmmaker Godfrey Reggio is back to his wordless ways, with his new film "Visitors," his first in over a decade. The film, which is Ep'ed by Steven Soderbergh, is set to debut with a live performance of the film's score from Philip Glass at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Read More: Watch: Mesmerizing Trailer for 'Visitors,' Godfrey Reggio's First Film in Over a Decade The promotional information for "Visitors" says that it "reveals humanity's trancelike relationship with technology, which, when commandeered by extreme emotional states, produces massive effects far beyond the human species. The film is visceral, offering the audience an experience beyond information about the moment in which we live." In a statement exclusive to Indiewire, producer Lawrence Taub says, "To have the opportunity to premiere Visitors as a live special event at the preeminent Toronto International Film Festival could not have been foretold.
- 8/14/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
HollywoodNews.com: Oscar®-nominated documentary short subjects “Poster Girl” and “Killing in the Name” and the documentary feature “Quest for Honor” will screen as the next installment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is free.
Directed by Sara Nesson, who produced the film with Mitchell W. Block, “Poster Girl” follows former cheerleader and Army magazine cover subject Robynn Murray as she deals with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder following her return from Iraq. The film earned a 2010 Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Short Subject. Block will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.
“Killing in the Name” tells the story of Ashraf, a man who has devoted his life to opposing terrorism within the Muslim community since...
Directed by Sara Nesson, who produced the film with Mitchell W. Block, “Poster Girl” follows former cheerleader and Army magazine cover subject Robynn Murray as she deals with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder following her return from Iraq. The film earned a 2010 Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Short Subject. Block will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.
“Killing in the Name” tells the story of Ashraf, a man who has devoted his life to opposing terrorism within the Muslim community since...
- 3/26/2012
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off Part Two of its 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” screening series with the 2010 Oscar®-nominated feature “Exit through the Gift Shop” and “Catfish” on Wednesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is free.
“Exit through the Gift Shop” follows a videographer named Thierry Guetta, who attempts to document the work of some of the world’s best-known guerrilla street artists. When the artist known only as Banksy questions Guetta’s intentions, however, and seizes control of the film, the roles of filmmaker and subject are reversed. Directed by Banksy and produced by Jaimie D’Cruz, “Exit through the Gift Shop” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature.
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project,...
“Exit through the Gift Shop” follows a videographer named Thierry Guetta, who attempts to document the work of some of the world’s best-known guerrilla street artists. When the artist known only as Banksy questions Guetta’s intentions, however, and seizes control of the film, the roles of filmmaker and subject are reversed. Directed by Banksy and produced by Jaimie D’Cruz, “Exit through the Gift Shop” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature.
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project,...
- 3/16/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
First there was "Koyaanisqatsi", filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's innovative 1983 non-narrative merging of mesmerizing images and cyclical Philip Glass music. (The title comes from the Hopi terminology for "life out of balance.") It went on to spawn countless imitators, particularly among commercial and music video directors.
Reggio followed up in 1988 with the pan-cultural "Powaqqatsi" ("life in transformation"), a more worldly but no less spiritual take on technology's effect on developing nations.
Now he completes the trilogy with "Naqoyqatsi" (translating as either "war as a way of life," "a life of killing each other" or "civilized violence"), and although Reggio has a lot to say about our hyper-accelerated 21st century lifestyle and brings extensive digital technology into the mix, there's a pervading sense of Deja Vu that leaves the larger impression.
Twenty years later, Reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery, but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task.
As a result, while bringing his trilogy of films to a fitting close, the technique grows tired during the course of its nearly 90 wordless minutes. Despite the involvement of Steven Soderbergh as executive producer, this Miramax release will unlikely attract more than marginal interest beyond the film festival circuit.
The picture is divided into three thematic acts. The first traces the evolution of the numerical code; the second concentrates on competitive sports, gaming and other addictive pursuits; and the third serves up a montage of constantly shifting contemporary iconography. The final installment of the trilogy relies heavily on stock footage gleaned from newsreels, military and instructional films, corporate videos and even commercials.
Those images have been considerably altered from their original form, be it by speeding them up or slowing them down, tinting or coloring, distorting or re-animating, among other forms of digital manipulation.
They're often quite beautiful to look at and even occasionally warrant a snicker, as is the case when, during a sequence containing a succession of 3-D corporate logos, the name "Enron" floats across the screen.
But after a while, those images and those themes seem to repeat themselves and when backed by another swirling drone of a Glass score (made somewhat warmer this time around by the presence of cellist Yo-Yo Ma), the effect becomes undeniably hypnotic -- as in "you are getting sleepy."
Very sleepy.
NAQOYQATSI
Miramax
Credits:
Director-screenwriter-producer: Godfrey Reggio
Producers: Lawrence Taub, Joe Beirne
Executive producer: Steven Soderbergh
Director of photography: Russell Lee Fine
Editor-visual designer: Jon Kane
Music: Philip Glass featuring Yo-Yo Ma
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Reggio followed up in 1988 with the pan-cultural "Powaqqatsi" ("life in transformation"), a more worldly but no less spiritual take on technology's effect on developing nations.
Now he completes the trilogy with "Naqoyqatsi" (translating as either "war as a way of life," "a life of killing each other" or "civilized violence"), and although Reggio has a lot to say about our hyper-accelerated 21st century lifestyle and brings extensive digital technology into the mix, there's a pervading sense of Deja Vu that leaves the larger impression.
Twenty years later, Reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery, but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task.
As a result, while bringing his trilogy of films to a fitting close, the technique grows tired during the course of its nearly 90 wordless minutes. Despite the involvement of Steven Soderbergh as executive producer, this Miramax release will unlikely attract more than marginal interest beyond the film festival circuit.
The picture is divided into three thematic acts. The first traces the evolution of the numerical code; the second concentrates on competitive sports, gaming and other addictive pursuits; and the third serves up a montage of constantly shifting contemporary iconography. The final installment of the trilogy relies heavily on stock footage gleaned from newsreels, military and instructional films, corporate videos and even commercials.
Those images have been considerably altered from their original form, be it by speeding them up or slowing them down, tinting or coloring, distorting or re-animating, among other forms of digital manipulation.
They're often quite beautiful to look at and even occasionally warrant a snicker, as is the case when, during a sequence containing a succession of 3-D corporate logos, the name "Enron" floats across the screen.
But after a while, those images and those themes seem to repeat themselves and when backed by another swirling drone of a Glass score (made somewhat warmer this time around by the presence of cellist Yo-Yo Ma), the effect becomes undeniably hypnotic -- as in "you are getting sleepy."
Very sleepy.
NAQOYQATSI
Miramax
Credits:
Director-screenwriter-producer: Godfrey Reggio
Producers: Lawrence Taub, Joe Beirne
Executive producer: Steven Soderbergh
Director of photography: Russell Lee Fine
Editor-visual designer: Jon Kane
Music: Philip Glass featuring Yo-Yo Ma
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
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