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‘Visitors’ Is Staring At You

Funny Face

Twelve years after finishing the groundbreaking Koyaanisqatsi trilogy, Godfrey Reggio’s new documentary looks at what the human face—and the act of looking at human faces—tells us about ourselves.

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Cinedigm

When Godfrey Reggio was a young monk in the Catholic Church, he was taught, “In order to truly see that which is familiar, you have to stare at it until it becomes strange.”

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The principle became the modus operandi behind Reggio’s poetic brand of filmmaking, beginning with his first feature, 1982’s...

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