In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

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.