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Fricke and Reggio chose to shoot unscripted footage and edit it into an hour-long film. Personally, I view the film as the quintessential environmental movie — a transformative meditation on the current imbalance between humans and the wider world that supports them in the Hopi language , "Koyanaanis" means turmoil and "qatsi" means life. When I left the performance, I was in a hypnotic daze, transfixed by what I had just seen. But if one can consider the motive behind the repetition, the music ceases to be oppressive and becomes sublime and entrancing. Articles with short description Use mdy dates from April Articles with hAudio microformats Album infoboxes lacking a cover.

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If ever a film was destined for watching in a cinema, this is it. What's not to love about Koyaanisqatsi?

Retrieved April 19, A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion. The campaign involved invasions of privacy and the use of technology to control behavior.

And its title is notoriously hard to pronounce. Retrieved November 17, Shooting bums, as well as buildings, didn't matter. This is the highest value of any work of art, not predetermined koyxanisqatsi, but meaning gleaned from the experience of the encounter.

Glass's score responds by heightening its tension and adding a semi-brutal nature to its repetitiveness.

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Learn more More Like This. Based in new Mexico during the sixties, Reggio taught grade school, secondary school and college. Both films were available in a two-disc box set.

The score adds impact to an already stunning array of unforgettable images, the details of which I will not go into, so that one may see the film with fresh eyes.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. Retrieved September 20, There are times when the film exhibits an almost surreal quality more indicative of a twisted, futuristic, dystopian sci-fi epic than of our mundane world.

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There's your mood bomb, right there. What is the rocket that explodes?

Audible Download Audio Books. Three Hopi prophecies sung by a choral ensemble during the latter part of the "Prophecies" movement are translated just prior to the end credits:. The man-made world is much less appealing. The New York Times.

Show 25 25 50 All. Godfrey Reggio's 'Naqoyqatsi ' ". Instead of making public service announcementswhich Reggio felt "had no visibility," advertising spots were purchased for television, radio, newspapers, and billboards.

Edit Cast Uncredited cast: A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence. Essence of Life DVD. For some people, it's a piece of shit.

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This is followed by a composite shot of the moon passing behind a skyscraper. Reggio was not on location in Times Square when Fricke shot the footage and thought the idea of shooting portraits of people was "foolish". InReggio was invited to develop a new school of exploration and production in the arts, technology, and mass media being founded by the Benetton company. The section shown depicts several tall, shadowed figures standing near a taller figure adorned with a crown.

It is the journey that is the objective.