Once Within A Time
Once Within a Time
8/17/2024 | 51m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
From visionary filmmaker of "Koyaanisqatsi," Godfrey Reggio's new film "Once Within a Time."
From visionary filmmaker of "Koyaanisqatsi," Godfrey Reggio's new film "Once Within a Time" is a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one. Featuring a score composed by longtime collaborator Philip Glass, it is a kaleidoscopic tone poem collaging multilayered effects driven images about technological obsession, innocence, and the pending catastrophe.
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Once Within A Time is a local public television program presented by NMPBS
Once Within A Time
Once Within a Time
8/17/2024 | 51m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
From visionary filmmaker of "Koyaanisqatsi," Godfrey Reggio's new film "Once Within a Time" is a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one. Featuring a score composed by longtime collaborator Philip Glass, it is a kaleidoscopic tone poem collaging multilayered effects driven images about technological obsession, innocence, and the pending catastrophe.
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[orchestral tuning, audience chatter] [tuning ends] [sporadic audience coughing] [gears turning] ♪rousing foreign language vocal arrangements♪ [birds chirping, distant ice cream truck music] [whimsical music, children playing] [shimmering and twinkling] [music and children playing continues] [shimmering and twinkling] ♪whimsical music, digital bleep-bloops♪ [shimmering and twinkling] ♪♪♪ [shimmering and twinkling] ♪♪♪ [shimmering and twinkling] [hand slapping] ♪♪♪ [music stops] [falling whistle] [shimmering and twinkling] [gibberish, wind blowing] [laughs maniacally] [wind blowing] -[chomp] -[laughs maniacally] [shimmering and twinkling] ♪wonky whimsical music♪ [pop] [ding] [boink] [high-pitched laughter] [zany sounds] [whirring and beeping] [digital bleep-bloops] -[whoosh] -[child's laugh] [digital bleep-bloops] [whoosh] [reverberating maniacal laugh] [birds chirping] [cuckoo clock] [electric surge and reverberating maniacal laugh] [crunch] [digital bleep-bloops] -[electric surge] -[unintelligible radio chatter] [echoing snap] [bite, digital glitching] [whooshing] [echoing howl] [slot machine dinging] [cacophonous noises, electric surging] [curious jaunty music, ticking] [creaking] [high-pitched gibberish] [shimmering and twinkling] ♪curious whimsical music♪ [thudding] ♪dramatic music♪ [reverberating maniacal laughing] ♪♪♪ [music ends, thunder crashes] [low monstrous growl] [distant wail] [thunder crashes, growling continues] [cracking, distant wailing] ♪children singing whimsically in foreign language♪ [thunder crashes] ♪♪♪ [thunder crashes] ♪♪♪ [thunder crashing] [music ends] [distant reverberating pings] ♪curious accordion music♪ [digital beeping and glitching] ♪♪♪ [electric surging] ♪curious flute music♪ [twinkling and shimmering, distant children playing] ♪♪♪ -[bloop] -[child laughing] [wonky whimsical music, boinging] [boing] [pop] ♪♪♪ [boing] ♪♪♪ ♪suspenseful whimsical music♪ [shimmering and twinkling] ♪♪♪ [electronic buzzing and glitching] [unintelligible radio chatter] ♪♪♪ [electronic beeping] [rapid ticking] [ding] [reverberating click] [curious accordion music, fire rumbling] [electronic glitching] ♪♪♪ [distant siren] [beeping] [unintelligible radio chatter] [radio static, ominous drone] [ticking] ♪sparse eerie ethereal tones♪ [echoing thud] ♪♪♪ [distant crowd cheering] ♪♪♪ [crumbling] [distant military chanting] [ominous reverberating gibberish] ♪♪♪ [low pulsing drone] [electronic glitching and beeping] [distant applause] [electronic beeping and glitching] [distant cheering, buzzer] ♪♪♪ [electronic beeping and glitching] [low drone] ♪♪♪ [electronic surging] [ominous reverberating gibberish] [electronic surging, crowd cheering] [reverberating gibberish] ♪singing operatically in gibberish♪ [crowd cheering] [reverberating gibberish continues] ♪singing operatically in gibberish♪ [electronic blast] [crowd cheering] [reverberating gibberish shouting] ♪♪♪ [reverberating thud] [reverberating gibberish] ♪♪♪ [bubbling, distant children screaming] ♪♪♪ [electronic beeping and glitching] ♪♪♪ [reverberating gibberish] ♪♪♪ [shimmering and twinkling] [water dripping] [clinking] [blast] [twinkling] ♪♪♪ [electric surging] ♪♪♪ [electronic beeping and glitching] ♪♪♪ [music ends] [deep rumbling] ♪sparse ethereal tones♪ ♪energetic oscillating synths♪ [music stops] ♪pensive choral music♪ [sand trickling] ♪♪♪ [laughs] [birds chirping, water flowing] ♪distant pensive choral music♪ ♪pensive choral music♪ [sand whooshing] ♪♪♪ [distant baby crying] ♪♪♪ [music stops] [deep rumbling breathing] ♪deep ominous music♪ [mechanical whirring and shifting] [electronic beeping] ♪♪♪ [crumbling, distant monstrous wailing] [deep monstrous growl] ♪sparse eerie tribal music♪ ♪sparse dramatic tribal music♪ [electronic glitching and beeping] ♪♪♪ [alarm and electronic beeping] ♪♪♪ [electronic beeping] ♪♪♪ [zapping] [zapping] [thud, blast] [static] [ethereal melancholic vocals, unintelligible radio chatter] [glass smashing] [ethereal melancholic vocals, high-pitched beep] [chimp vocalizing, wind blowing] [wolves howling] [distant children speaking unintelligibly] [film reel ticking] [tape rewinding] [click] [beep, thunder crash] [distant children screaming, thunder crashing] [cracking] [thunder crashing] [distant children screaming] [sounds stop] ♪reverberating ethereal singing in foreign language♪ ♪reverberating ethereal children singing♪ ♪deep reverberating tribal music♪ [shimmering and twinkling] ♪♪♪ [distant crowd applause] ♪♪♪ [twinkling] [music stops] [shimmering] ♪fanfare horns♪ ♪tribal drums♪ [crowd cheers and applause] [shimmering and twinkling] [primate grunting] [crickets chirruping] [children laughing] ♪sparse free jazz♪ ♪cacophonous jazz♪ [energetic free jazz and electronic beeping] ♪♪♪ ♪ethereal synths♪ ♪energetic free jazz♪ ♪frenetic jazz♪ ♪energetic tribal music♪ [zoom] ♪♪♪ [applause, reverberating tribal music vocals] [wind blowing] [birds chirping, reverberating ethereal vocals] [birds chirping] ♪children singing folk song in foreign language♪ [smooth jazzy music, distant children playing] [cheers and applause] [distant siren]
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