Godfrey Reggio on ‘Visitors,’ Making a Special Effects-Driven Documentary and Slow Motion Versus Time-Lapse

If Godfrey Reggio’s films were already pushing the line on what constitutes documentary, his latest is the most difficult to defend to purists yet. Titled Visitors, the film is not only a narrative- and argument-free work comprised of people’s (and a gorilla’s) faces in slow motion and landscapes depicted with time-lapse photography, it also utilizes a …