Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
Crew
Godfrey Reggio
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Ron Fricke
Screenplay, Editor, Director of Photography
Michael Hoenig
Screenplay
Alton Walpole
Screenplay, Editor, Associate Producer
Francis Ford Coppola
Executive Producer
Mel Lawrence
Associate Producer
Roger McNew
Associate Producer, Assistant Camera
T. Michael Powers
Associate Producer
Lawrence Taub
Associate Producer
Neil Bockman
Assistant Camera
David Brownlow
Assistant Camera
Robert Hill
Assistant Camera
Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Randy Thom
Sound Effects
Philip Glass
Original Music Composer, Music
Phillip Harrington
Still Photographer
Karl Kernberger
Still Photographer
Wayne V. McGee
Still Photographer
Hillary Harris
Additional Photography
Louie Schwartzberg
Additional Photography
Christine Gibson
Additional Photography
Jacques Ellul
Idea
Ivan Illich
Idea
David Monongye
Idea
Guy Debord
Idea
Leopold Kohr
Idea
Gary Burritt
Negative Cutter
Dean Alatzas
Grip
Roy Hememnez
Grip
Mark Muich
Grip
Robert Palmer
Grip
Paul Pascarella
Title Designer
