If you haven't seen the movie yet: https://watchdocumentaries.com/koyaanisqatsi/
Movie deserves to be viewed in a better quality than this please
40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi
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#22A classic trilogy. See also this list of films in the category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_films_describe...
I can also recommend Manufactured Landscapes.
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#23Koyaanisqatsi is just one of those Magic films that you can start watching and think yeah whatever - and then as it goes on and on you just get more and more blown away by incredible intensity of the soundtrack and visuals. A really transcendental experience.
The backstory that Philip Glass originally didn’t want to score it is also amazing, as is the reason for Francis Ford Coppola’s name being on the artwork even though he had nothing to do with the film.
absolutely awesome
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#24Randomized gif version: https://www.monkeon.co.uk/gifaanisqatsi/
this is a cool idea, thanks for sharing
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#25My kids (age 3 and 5) wanted to watch a movie and I didn't really want them watching one so I bluffed and put on Koyaanisqatsi. They (and I, for the first time in ~15 years) were enthralled. Ended up talking about poverty, etc.
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#26 "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."Re: 40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen the Philip Glass ensemble playing live to the movie!
I’m thinking that the performance that I saw had the PGE plus the Hollywood Bowl symphony playing live to the movie, but I could be misremembering it and the symphony may have played other material with the PGE before or after the movie.
I saw PGE and the LA Philharmonic performing live with the movie in 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl, and they also performed other pieces, so you're likely remembering correctly.
https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/philip-glass-ensemble-la-ph...
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Don't forget the Philip Glass soundtrack!
i always thought that the score was the whole point
just trying to think where i first saw it. i assumed it was at edinburgh university film soc (i was friends with the soc's chairman) but it can't be. some art-house place in london, i guess.
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#29If you like this then I can’t recommend Baraka highly enough, by the cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film) No narration at all, just amazing visuals and music/sounds. Review by Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-baraka-1992
Preview with The Host Of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance:
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#30If you like this then I can’t recommend Baraka highly enough, by the cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film) No narration at all, just amazing visuals and music/sounds. Review by Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-baraka-1992
When thinking of Baraka and Koyaanisqatai, I think of Bodysong— similar and very excellent. But music by Radiohead.