Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Scene - The Grid

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  • @yeppen22283
    @yeppen22283 20 дней назад +4

    As a person studying anthropology and space, I believe this is the best visual representation of the "social rhythm" suggested by lefebvre.

  • @UntitledKirk
    @UntitledKirk 3 года назад +132

    I remember enjoying this film for a good hour, but then when this entire Grid sequence started, I was entranced. I couldn't look away. It was almost hypnotizing. Easily my favorite film of all time.

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions Год назад +1

      So funny to me to watch people zoom around at ultra-high speed. lol.

    • @charlie5thumbs351
      @charlie5thumbs351 3 месяца назад

      Same. I think it may be my favorite movie of all time.

  • @SketchyScot
    @SketchyScot Год назад +23

    This good 20 minute in total section of the film is what I can only describe as us, as a species, being studied/scrutinized under a microscope. Scurrying about like ants all with a routine.

  • @Sturgeon54
    @Sturgeon54 3 года назад +171

    Ironic that this whole "modern technology" sequence is now just early '80s nostalgia, as most of this technology has itself become obsolete, lifestyles have changed, the jobs no longer exist, or have been outsourced to other countries.

    • @ardius9777
      @ardius9777 3 года назад +31

      It just makes you wonder what this film would look like if it were shot now. The fourth industrial revolution has truly changed a lot

    • @MKMousanz
      @MKMousanz 3 года назад +45

      I mean, people are still exploited like this, just not Americans anymore. It’s worse than ever, actually

    • @Kompe2
      @Kompe2 2 года назад +6

      Samsara is sort of in the sale vein and shot more recently :D

    • @RtB68
      @RtB68 Год назад +5

      @@MKMousanz Workers unite, eh?

    • @nah4989
      @nah4989 Год назад +4

      80s nostalgia is already cliche, this movie is timeless lol

  • @petergivenbless900
    @petergivenbless900 10 месяцев назад +22

    I love the cut from the sausage-making machine to the banks of escalators at Grand Central!

    • @glorymanheretosleep
      @glorymanheretosleep 9 месяцев назад

      Twinkies used to be so big! And they are being handled by workers without gloves...yuck.

    • @waharadome
      @waharadome 8 месяцев назад

      Someone else mentioned it could be PATH under Yamazaki's WTC

    • @jennypaxson3030
      @jennypaxson3030 8 месяцев назад +1

      We are the hot dogs

    • @tcutshaw
      @tcutshaw 6 месяцев назад

      I noticed that too. It's really genius. There's so many moments like that hidden in this film.

    • @BL0GD0R
      @BL0GD0R 5 месяцев назад

      Hell yeah, graduated cum laude off a thesis I wrote that probably took half a page to talk about that cut lmao

  • @jamesmmcgill
    @jamesmmcgill Год назад +28

    If you see Koyaanisqatsi only for Pruitt Igoe and Prophecies, there is one particular sequence that will defeat them all, and that is The Grid.

    • @jacobangeles5539
      @jacobangeles5539 Год назад +4

      I also watch Koyaanisqatsi for Koyaanisqatsi.

    • @JohnDoe-uk6si
      @JohnDoe-uk6si Год назад

      ​@@jacobangeles5539I watch it for powaqatsi and Anima mundi

  • @ProfessorTime
    @ProfessorTime 3 года назад +111

    This is actually a slow and leisurely pace of life by 2021 standards.

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions Год назад +5

      Yep. Everyone so impatient and CONSTANTLY in a frenetic hurry!

  • @sirtophamhatt8204
    @sirtophamhatt8204 2 года назад +23

    0:04 It sounds like they're chanting "HOT DOGS, HOT DOGS!"

  • @edwardrenefette7119
    @edwardrenefette7119 2 года назад +47

    I remember watching it for the first time in a movie theater and the whole movie audience including myself let out a collective gasp as if we had been running a marathon. This sequence in the movie runs about 20 minutes and near the end the speed of the visuals is so accelerated that you feel like your taking a psychedelic trip on a roller coaster.
    I had the pleasure of seeing two live performances of this film where the music is live played by the Phillip Glass Ensemble while the movie is projected on a screen. The first time I saw a live performance was at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA. I almost didn't get in because it was a sell out. It was one of the best movie experiences of my life. The second time was at the Hollywood Bowl, also exciting but not as exciting as the Royce Hall performance. Phillip Glass used to do world tours of this program. I'm not sure if he is still doing so.

  • @IAmNumber4000
    @IAmNumber4000 2 года назад +43

    Every baby you see in this movie is at least 40 years old now

    • @crazyfox9oh
      @crazyfox9oh 2 года назад +7

      Probably a little older, this film took a few years to make, starting in 1975.

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 месяцев назад

      Yep I saw a few kids that were about the age I was then. I’ll now be 50 next year. :/

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 месяцев назад

      @@crazyfox9ohmany of the scenes in this segment are from 81 or 82 though. I can tell.

  • @annaelizabethwade1660
    @annaelizabethwade1660 2 года назад +12

    Can't believe this is 40 years old now. First saw it in 1985 when I was 17 and never did I think I'd be watching it in my 50s thinking 'Yup, that's exactly where my head is right now..' The Philip Glass soundtrack is perfect too...

  • @tristanlaferriere5194
    @tristanlaferriere5194 4 года назад +66

    All those escalators at 2:04 were part of the PATH station underneath the original World Trade Center. Sad to think all of that is completely destroyed now.

    • @GordonHorneOfficial
      @GordonHorneOfficial 3 года назад +21

      makes it all the more poignant

    • @SFKelvin
      @SFKelvin 3 года назад +4

      Yeah, but Cheney and the Military Industrial Complex is laughing at you, sukka.

  • @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN
    @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN Год назад +19

    This movie gave me chills

  • @tinkerbit
    @tinkerbit 5 месяцев назад +5

    Hypnotic!

  • @kevinhillary4057
    @kevinhillary4057 3 года назад +25

    My favorite part of the movie :’) Philip glass music is incredible

  • @abibas198
    @abibas198 Год назад +8

    a constant aggressive flow of people and vital activity, human factory, gutting brains...scary as hell

  • @chrisfinch8637
    @chrisfinch8637 2 года назад +13

    4:05 My favorite part of the chorus, which gives me goosebumps, every time I hear it.

  • @Jlipnicki
    @Jlipnicki Год назад +5

    These people were building the world we now inhabit.

  • @jeshkam
    @jeshkam 3 года назад +26

    "We're functioning automatik
    and we are dancing mechanik.
    We are the robots."
    Kraftwerk, 1978

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions 11 месяцев назад +2

    That elderly black lady on the right at 5:00 drinkin her smoothie. 😂 she is cute and funny!

  • @ohiovr
    @ohiovr 3 года назад +7

    This is what mania sounds like. The following track makes it perfect.

  • @wdamian
    @wdamian Год назад +6

    The greatest film ever made.

  • @natebailey1122
    @natebailey1122 Год назад +2

    This movie is incredible

  • @yvc9
    @yvc9 Год назад +2

    When an entire society slowly melts into onr organism

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions Год назад +1

    Damn. I ain’t eaten yet this morning and those potato skins at 4:15 look BOMB! 😂

  • @Naminski1a
    @Naminski1a 4 года назад +6

    3:06 - Time-lapse shot of a woman playing Ms. Pac-Man and it’s from Namco.

    • @Takeshi357
      @Takeshi357 3 года назад +2

      I think everyone knows what Pac-Man is.

  • @BananaPhoPhilly
    @BananaPhoPhilly 3 года назад +9

    Punch-card computers baffle me lol

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 месяцев назад +1

      Me too. I was born in 74 and they are STILL before my time. lol

  • @BananaPhoPhilly
    @BananaPhoPhilly 3 года назад +5

    3:20 looks like he could be The Completionist's dad

    • @richardbeaubian5157
      @richardbeaubian5157 3 года назад

      He’s teaching him the way of completionism

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 5 месяцев назад

      He looks like a lot of young men these days. lol. The glasses and beard. All of that is back in. :)

  • @vicinvesta8349
    @vicinvesta8349 Год назад +8

    This is the most depressing part of the movie. Not the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe, ghetto scenes or derelict people in the streets.
    Standing at the machine every day for all my life
    I'm used to do it and I need it
    It's the only thing I want
    It's just a rush, push, cash
    Yello, Bostich

    • @JohnDoe-uk6si
      @JohnDoe-uk6si Год назад

      It's the matrix, learn to code, and you'll be free. Lay off the smokes.

  • @nicosy282
    @nicosy282 3 года назад +2

    I had seen this movie in 2010 before I had made the commitment in purchasing the Qatsi trilogy on Blu-ray on April 2021.

  • @flrnce
    @flrnce 2 года назад +5

    Top 10 movie scenes of all time

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions Год назад +1

    Most of these factories were in America, during the time this was filmed. Now, most of all of them are in China. That’s where most of our goods comes from😒. Problem with that is, if our relationship with China ever goes tits up (and it’s threatening to as of 2023), guess what will happen.

  • @brendy_lw
    @brendy_lw 2 года назад

    2:15 : Un extrait utilisé dans le générique de l'émission Des Racines & Des Ailes.

  • @JIeXa337
    @JIeXa337 3 года назад +18

    6:10 - some kind of genius editing here. In a capitalist society, the man is comparable to meat.

    • @ControlledCha0s
      @ControlledCha0s 3 года назад +4

      Indeed, people are the "meat" on which the machine is fed.

    • @EmDub01
      @EmDub01 3 года назад +3

      Also the quick shots of money between those two ideas. Machinery, capital, meat, all moving along the conveyor belt.

    • @IAmNumber4000
      @IAmNumber4000 2 года назад +3

      Also note at 2:00, it cuts directly from hot dogs on tracks to people on escalators. Visually similar, looks intentional as well.

  • @derhofnarr5258
    @derhofnarr5258 Месяц назад

    Le Bon now and vor ever ?

  • @agemoth
    @agemoth 7 месяцев назад

    You should have started this when the moon disappears behind the skyscraper!

  • @pitrefe1592
    @pitrefe1592 Год назад

    Certains extraits comme ceux de 0:15 2:15 ainsi que 2:51 font partie du générique de l'émission Des racines & des ailes

  • @laszlogolyan9650
    @laszlogolyan9650 3 года назад +2

    Does anybody know what those women do from 0:20 ?

  • @fabiosilva9637
    @fabiosilva9637 2 года назад +3

    minimal, yet monumental.

  • @breakercassidy6946
    @breakercassidy6946 2 года назад +2

    I remember getting high in college

  • @Eeveee2
    @Eeveee2 2 года назад +3

    Watched this a very long while and you can say I was shocked when they used The Grid in Stranger Things Season 3 episode 6 54:00 mark

    • @daustin8888
      @daustin8888 2 года назад +3

      I just watched the timestamp of that episode and never noticed that.
      Thats cool.
      I guess it is kind of fitting. Koyaanisqatsi is basically about the human condition being devoured by technology. In that scene innocent people are devoured by an interdimensional beast

    • @yvc9
      @yvc9 Год назад

      Fuck stranger things

  • @spkanava
    @spkanava 4 года назад +3

    82

  • @sparrow6437
    @sparrow6437 4 месяца назад

    1:39

  • @franciskristiantullo4851
    @franciskristiantullo4851 10 месяцев назад

    Ray of Light by Madonna

  • @NeRo84
    @NeRo84 4 месяца назад

    I've no idea why this film works as well as it does. It has no right to.

  • @mr.bluesky2628
    @mr.bluesky2628 2 года назад +1

    0:54

  • @connorvlek
    @connorvlek 7 месяцев назад

    this shit go hard

  • @ColinFowler
    @ColinFowler Год назад

    “We used to build shit in this country"

  • @Lee-xu2wb
    @Lee-xu2wb Год назад

    that's a lot of hotdogs

  • @hedonicmusic
    @hedonicmusic 3 года назад +8

    Human life is a ridiculous thing. This movie should be preserved better than the bible. Is the best documentary of our civilization as species.

  • @elpankus
    @elpankus 9 месяцев назад

    Nah Baraka still number 1#

    • @jamesmmcgill
      @jamesmmcgill 7 месяцев назад

      No. Koyaanisqatsi is the GOAT. Without Koyaanisqatsi, there wouldn't be Baraka.

    • @jegr3398
      @jegr3398 17 дней назад

      Baraka is cool, but I prefer Koyaanisqatsi

  • @datint0003
    @datint0003 Год назад +2

    people are sausages

  • @paardenwereldbijpaardenfan5180
    @paardenwereldbijpaardenfan5180 4 года назад +2

    Er jou texaschainsaw the real men

  • @agemoth
    @agemoth 7 месяцев назад

    The food looks inedible trash!

  • @WSNO
    @WSNO 2 года назад +1

    This is how people interact depicted with precision. This stuff is always made just like that. It needs to be made because otherwise humanity forgets itself in short order. We call it "Dog's Stuff" because if it talked, it would be like constant dog barking. I've been living in the placeholder area...that's where there's all that flat screen, driverless cars, and social media stuff is for those who get overwhelmed with Dog's Stuff...to figure myself out, but I'm eager to get into the swing of management :3c
    I'm glad I got the connections, The Rainbow Path out of society's belly comes naturally to me....So i've been keeping the Doggy Castoffs close. I watch these segments of this film because It gets me all hot and bothered. Ttfn, i'm heading home!

    • @RtB68
      @RtB68 Год назад

      you might want to lay off the meth for a few months.

    • @normietwiceremoved
      @normietwiceremoved Год назад

      What the hell are you talking about?

    • @normietwiceremoved
      @normietwiceremoved Год назад

      What the hell are you talking about?
      It is important for you to interact and communicate with others in order to understand and remember who you are as a human being. This is often referred to as "Dog's Stuff," as it can be overwhelming and constantly demanding, like the barking of a dog. You have been living in a place where technology, such as flat screen TVs and driverless cars, and social media are prevalent in order to figure out who you are?? However, you are now ready to take on the responsibilities of management??? You have the necessary connections and feel confident in your ability to navigate through society. Watching certain segments of this film excites you too...

    • @t.swaggit629
      @t.swaggit629 Год назад

      What

  • @JamesPlaysGames95
    @JamesPlaysGames95 2 года назад

    seriously. these movies should be sent into a satellite if aliens ever find us in the future

  • @WaleedHiggins
    @WaleedHiggins 2 года назад

    Naqoyqatsi. ruclips.net/video/OxHdp10IIgo/видео.html

  • @MarkDavis77
    @MarkDavis77 2 года назад

    Ah, the 80s, a simpler, better time.

    • @daustin8888
      @daustin8888 2 года назад +16

      I really wish people would stop saying that

    • @jamesmmcgill
      @jamesmmcgill 2 года назад +2

      @@daustin8888 I really wish people would stop saying "I really wish people would stop saying that".

    • @smimoma5930
      @smimoma5930 2 года назад

      @@jamesmmcgill I really wish people would stop saying "I really wish people would stop saying "I really wish people would stop saying that"".

    • @chimpazoo1143
      @chimpazoo1143 Год назад

      ​@@jamesmmcgillholy fuck, saul goodman

    • @EphemeralProductions
      @EphemeralProductions 11 месяцев назад

      @@daustin8888in many ways it WAS a simpler time than these days. Yeah it had its problems. Every decade does but I’d rather trade todays problems for the ones back then because they pale in comparison to todays!

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 2 года назад +1

    You think Biden has the integrity to talk honestly to the American people this evening?

  • @amishrobots
    @amishrobots Год назад

    1:26