Visitors

Godfrey Reggio's mind-blowing 1982 cine-poem Koyaanisqatsi was seen as a landmark in contemporary cinema, a non-narrative essay about a changing, industrialised world (the title means life out of balance in Hopi).

The signature montage of time-lapse photography, enigmatic visuals and Philip Glass' hypnotic score are present in Reggio's latest, Visitors, which is by no means less timely than his previous 'Qatsi' trilogy (Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi complete the set), and have even more to ponder over. Shot in black and white, the film is a meditation on humanity's trance-like relationship with technology. It is 87 minutes of  beautifully framed, highly processed shots that the director calls "moving stills,” most looking at faces of everyday people interacting with technology - objects like computers, keyboards, smartphones. But there's also stunning photography of landscape, moonscapes (yes, really), and a particularly arresting scene in which the camera faces Triska, a gorilla from Bronx Zoo in New York.

Philip Glass, who practically invented a new way to look at film music with Koyaanisqatsi, returns with a sweeping, mesmerising soundtrack - try and catch it in a cinema with the best sound, and the 4k digital projection in which it needs to be seen.