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  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 52 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 52 m

Summary Director 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

  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 52 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 52 m

Once Within a Time

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Summary Director 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

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90
Oct 15, 2023
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.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 13, 2023
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.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 9, 2023
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.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Opticnerve
Release Date Oct 13, 2023
Duration 52 m
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