Documentary · Music
American
1983 · Directed by Godfrey Reggio · 86 min
A film with no dialogue, no narrator and no characters. Over 86 minutes, images of American deserts, skies, cities, crowds and machines move in time with a score by Philip Glass. It asks you to watch the modern world as a pattern rather than a story.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining work of the non-narrative, music-driven documentary, it carried the avant-garde tradition of the 1920s city symphonies into the feature-length cinema of the early 1980s.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a piece of music made of pictures, where rhythm and repetition carry the meaning.
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