Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, presented by Francis Ford Coppola, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States.
Koyaanisqatsi attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the “original” is the proliferation of the standardized. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. We do not live nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive.
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sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php
(follow the movie through the nine parts 1/9 to 9/9)
