In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

Philip Glass returns as the film's composer and Jon Kane as the Visual Designer (having also worked on Naqoyqatsi with Reggio in 2002). " In 1995 he directed the short feature entitled Evidence that featured like the Qatsi Trilogy a soundtrack composed by his friend Philip Glass. Reggio co-founded La Clinica de la Gente a facility that provided medical care to 12000 community members in Santa Fe and La Gente a community-organizing project in Northern New Mexico's barrios.