- Koyaanisqatsi: Life
out of balance
- Koyaanisqatsi is a film from 1983 produced by
Godfrey Reggio.
- Music av Philip Glass.
- Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word meaning "life out
of balance." The movie may be difficult to watch for those
with a short attention span and limited aesthetic values, but
these are the people who need to see it the most. Not a single
word is spoken throughout the entire film. It consists only of
images and music conveying an overly crowded and complex world.
- Some may not see a direct overpopulation message
in the movie, but it does an excellent job of contrasting the
hyperactivity of a modern city with the simplicity of nature.The
images in the end of the film of modern industrial life contrasted
with the more "natural" landscapes of the beginning
give the movie a very anti-industrial feeling.It's interesting,
however, that the film also shows the beauty and power of technology
in that it is its self a product of technology. The film shows
crowds of people rushing around metropolises, but doesn't show
those few souls documenting it all on camera.This feeling of
watching an ant colony is intensified with the superb photography
of typical production lines. Here the machines are master and
the workers scurry around, forever at the mercy of the conveyor
belt. On a larger scale the teeming freeways are analogous to
the blood vessels of our own bodies - cities as a symbiotic life-form.But,
this is no life. Humans, like trained primates, are shown to
be in the rat-race like never before with no hope of redemption.Indeed,
the images of fire and destruction seem to foretell an apocalyptic
future unless we choose to return to our roots - like the Hopi
Indians.
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