Visitors (2013 film)

Visitors is a 2013 American documentary film, written and directed by Godfrey Reggio.

Visitors
Film poster
Directed by	Godfrey Reggio
Written by	Godfrey Reggio
Produced by	Mara Campione Phoebe Greenberg Jon Kane Penny Mancuso Godfrey Reggio Lawrence Taub
Cinematography	Graham Berry Trish Govoni Tom Lowe
Edited by	Chris Besecker Jon Kane
Music by	Philip Glass
Distributed by	Cinedigm
Release dates	September 8, 2013 (2013-09-08) (TIFF) January 2014 (2014-01) (US)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	No dialogue
Budget	$4.6 million[1]

Summary

It explores (like his previous films) "humanity's trancelike relationship with technology."[2][3]

Music

The musical score for Visitors was composed by Philip Glass, who previously collaborated with director Godfrey Reggio on the Qatsi trilogy. Performed by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, the music was released as a soundtrack album by Orange Mountain Music on September 3, 2013.[4]

Release

It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[5]

References

"Review: Godfrey Reggio and Phillip Glass Slow Down Time for "Visitors"". Huffington Post. January 21, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
Toronto Review: Godfrey Reggio Celebrates 30 Years Since 'Koyaanisqatsi' With Extraordinary Philip Glass-Scored 'Vistors'|IndieWire
After Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio's Vistors : The Conversation
"Philip Glass' 'Visitors' Soundtrack Announced". Film Music Reporter. August 14, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
"Visitors". TIFF. Retrieved August 10, 2013.

External links

Visitors at IMDb
Visitors at Rotten Tomatoes

Films directed by Godfrey Reggio
Qatsi trilogy	Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Powaqqatsi (1988) Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Other films	Anima Mundi (1992) Visitors (2013)

Philip Glass
List of compositions
Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 (Company) String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak) The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia
Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Fall of the House of Usher The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Orphée Les Enfants terribles La Belle et la Bête Monsters of Grace In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American The Trial
Symphonies	No. 1 (Low) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 ("Heroes") No. 5 (Choral) No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) No. 7 (Toltec) No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 (Lodger)
Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
Film scores	Inquiring Nuns (1968) North Star: Mark di Suvero (1977) Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Hamburger Hill (1987) The Thin Blue Line (1988) Powaqqatsi (1988) Mindwalk (1990) Anima Mundi (1991) A Brief History of Time (1991) Candyman (1992) Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) The Secret Agent (1996) Bent (1997) Kundun (1997) The Truman Show (1998) Dracula (1999) Naqoyqatsi (2002) The Hours (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Secret Window (2004) Taking Lives (2004) Going Upriver (2004) Undertow (2004) Neverwas (2005) Roving Mars (2006) A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006) The Illusionist (2006) Notes on a Scandal (2006) The Reaping (2007) Cassandra's Dream (2007) No Reservations (2007) Transcendent Man (2009) Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (2010) Icarus at the Edge of Time (2010) Elena (2011) Visitors (2013) Fantastic Four (2015) Jane (2017) Samurai Marathon (2019) Tales from the Loop (2020)
Related articles	Philip Glass Ensemble Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Minimal music Robert Wilson Dennis Russell Davies David Henry Hwang Godfrey Reggio Errol Morris La Monte Young Steve Reich Terry Riley Kronos Quartet Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread
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