Pat ONeill Water and Power
A moving meditation on industrialization, focusing on the dystopic desert created by Los Angeles s vast water consumption. O Neill conceived the film partly as an answer to Godfrey Reggio s mindnumbing Koyaanisqatsi (1983), a hypnotic inventory of touristy landscapes showing a world out of balance. In contrast O Neill creates images full of internal contradictions, using optical printing to collage different locales and suggest the inevitable conflict of industry and nature.
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