Koyaanisqatsi - Duke University | Program in Arts of the Moving Image

Koyaanisqatsi
present
Introduced by
Casey Herbert
(AMI)
(Godfrey Reggio, 1982, 86 min, USA, in English, Color, Blu-Ray)
Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of
the QATSI trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance."
Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision
of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment.
The musical score was composed by Philip Glass.
“It shuttles viewers from one jaw-dropping vision to the next, moving from
images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings’ increasing
dependence on technology. Koyaanisqatsi’s heterodox methods (including
hypnotic time-lapse photography) make it a look at our world from a truly
unique angle.” -- Criterion Collection
Sponsored by the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).
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