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Koyaanisqatsi Details

1983

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Director	Godfrey Reggio
Genres	Documentary

Koyaanisqatsi

First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" from 1983 - shot mostly in the desert Southwest and New York City on a tiny budget with no script, then attracting the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and enlisting the indispensable musical contribution of Philip Glass - delighted college students on the midnight circuit and fans of minimalism for many years. Meanwhile, its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass's reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic) - as well as its ecology-minded imagery - crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of 'Koyaanisqatsi', or "life out of balance," has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements and music videos and this DVD provides the uninitiated the chance to see where it all started--along with an intense audiovisual rush.

Director	Godfrey Reggio
Studio	MGM HOME ENT. (EUROPE) LTD.
Certificate
Genres	Documentary
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1983 To Rent: DVD: 13 Jan 2003

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- A wildly charitable viewer might describe this as an ecological documentary. Less than 90 minutes transport us from the... read more on Time Out
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  brilliant art movie
  
  the music is great and the video images sometimes overly long will last long after you see this, philip glass soundtrack some of the best theme music ever ... read more »
  
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  Sorry, but I was bored.
  
  You may have to blame in on being spoiled by Planet Earth, Human Planet, Home etc. but this film was far too dull. The images were mildly interesting (I am sure... read more »
  
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  Stunning
  
  If you like pictures you will love this film.
  
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  Frankly, this is a feature length music video. But the music is very good indeed, hence the three stars. Outside the music, this is as near to rhapsodic and ... read more »
  
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  First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" from 1983 - shot mostly in the desert Southwest and New York City on a tiny budget with no script, then attracting the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and enlisting the indispensable musical contribution ...