Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi

  • Director: Godfrey Reggio
  • Writer: Ron Fricke,Godfrey Reggio,Michael Hoenig
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: None, Hopi, English
  • Release date: August 24, 1983
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
  • "Koyaanisqatsi; Life out of balance" is a documentary film directed by Goffrey Reggio , which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 1983   .
    The film tells about the destruction of the natural environment by human society   .

    Details

    • Release date August 24, 1983
    • Filming locations Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA
    • Production companies American Zoetrope, IRE Productions, Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,723,872

    Gross worldwide

    $1,723,872

    Movie reviews

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    • By Keyshawn 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      Civilization falls

      Nature slept in loneliness for hundreds of millions of years, until the claws of human industrialization smashed it all. There's no dialogue, just montages of screen transitions, and an amazing soundtrack (Philip Glass, I've actively heard the music is great, and my ears are said to be a little more refined). Nature → fast-paced modern life → numb and desperate crowd → the fall of civilization. In the 1970s and 1980s, the streets, elevators, the Microsoft Building, the food industry... the...

    • By Karlie 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      The meaning of life is only in the results

      The part of the house demolition gradually turned into a high-rise building that melted into the smoke. Endless Blast Melt Fall is too depressing. Urban life is abstracted into assembly lines. The process is unimportant. Life is like pressing the fast-forward button. People are just a part of the natural cycle of a machine that makes dung. In the end, the visual elements stabilized again, but there are no concrete people and cities on the screen. It is an abstract circuit board satellite...

    • By Velda 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      Indian prophecies sung in the film

      In the final part of the film, the rocket takes off and falls to the music titled "prophecies," and the chorus is a Hopi prophecy. This music was also used in the movie "Watchmen". The content of the prophecy is as follows:
      1. If we dig out the treasures in the ground, it will lead to disaster.
      2. When the day of purification draws near, there will be spider webs spinning back and forth in the sky.
      3. One day, a container with ashes will fall from the sky, set the earth on fire,...

    • By Dana 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      The Evolution of Human Self-Identity: Witnessing Destruction and Self-Destruction

      The film can be roughly divided into two parts: the first 30 minutes is about human beings wanting to destroy nature, and the latter part is about human beings going to self-destruction. Of course, the word "destruction" may be too serious. As mentioned in the film, the most accurate word to describe this state is "unbalanced" - the original balance of the natural world no longer exists, and the current state of human balance is changing. tilt. The video begins with a few minutes of natural...

    • By Jakob 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      Douban, can you invent a column called China Review?

      Three and a half days are not benevolent, and all things are dogs. The exquisite civilization and seemingly safe and complete system built by 7 billion people in 5,000 years is not necessarily solid. Perhaps one day in the future civilization will be destroyed by an inadvertent act. It should be noted that the dinosaurs were also extinct in an instant, and the grand occasion of that year is now gone. None exist. The director is very ambitious. He is probably well versed in the limitations...

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    • By Deshaun 2023-01-17 23:17:53

      Is this the process of human progress? Progress and destruction are instantaneous. what are we. Nothing, but fearless and fearless, want to destroy other creatures to prove their power. But we are just ants in the universe. [Only the breeze on the river, and the bright moon in the mountains, the ear hears the sound, the eye meets the color, it is the endless treasure of the creator, and it is suitable for me and my...

    • By Garfield 2022-09-12 00:20:28

      The absence of dialogue brings the image into focus, which is quite shocking. PS This kind of film should be played on the big screen + live band, but such a magical concert by Philip Glass makes the musicians...

    • By Nannie 2022-04-24 07:01:17

      I expected it to be pretty boring, but it's surprisingly fast paced and narrative. Eighty-six minutes passed in a flash. Compared with the famous Last and First Man some time ago, it was so boring that I was in tears, even at the beginning, it was a shocking feeling. So it's quite enlightening, and it's more and more like a masterpiece. The music, my wife is so good. I used it for my classmates' homework three years ago and thought it sounded good. I couldn't find where it came from. I found it...

    • By Marie 2022-04-24 07:01:17

      Watching the audio-visual language class, the collapse of human civilization after it has developed to the extreme, what should human beings do after abandoning God, the crashed picture of "Challenger" and the music of the prophet are too shocking! !...

    • By Ladarius 2022-04-24 07:01:17

      The person in the middle section, looking at me, is...

    Movie plot

    The earth is vast and magnificent, with its own consciousness and perception. When humans appeared on the earth, the peaceful and tranquil kingdom that had existed before disappeared. A large heavy-duty truck spewing thick smoke like a beast was driving in the desert. At first, it seemed to be moving on its own, like a robot. The billowing smoke from the truck engulfed the truck and the driver. Explosives bombed the mountains,...
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    Background creation

    In 1983, commissioned by the Institute of Regional Studies, director Goffrey Reggio produced a non-narrative television film. On this basis, the first work of the Qatsi series "Koyaanisqatsi; Life out of balance" came into being. The film lasted eight years and adopted innovative film language. The whole film has no plot, characters and dialogue, and relies entirely on images and soundtracks. The original name Koyaanisqatsi of...
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    Movie quotes

    • [last lines]

      title card: Translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film: "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."

    • Choir: Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi - Koyaanisqatsi...

    • title card: ko-yaa-nis-qatsi

      [from the Hopi language]

      title card: n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.