This is without a doubt my favorite part of the film. The voices are simply angelic, and there's this underlying Cold War darkness that's only driven all the way home by the cut from a parking lot full of cars to an array of tanks and military gear.
i heard so much about this movie i went out and bought the dvd without really knowing what to expect...so i watched it with my mate on a projection screen and instantly loved it! the music and visuals are so evocative and it's never boring as you might expect a film with no narrative or dialogue to be...it's really uplifting and sad and thought provoking at the same time...obviously helps if you've had a big spliff and a couple of jars first! Unique
That 747's shot is so unique and wonderful. I keep watching this movie and can't wait for that shot, so memorable. Reminds me that aviation is not that simple. And the heat on the tarmac is doing a nice effect !
This music feels like a whole other world. A world where you can come to relax and get away from it all, that's what I do at least. When everything in the real world just becomes too hard to deal with, I know this music is here for me, and I play it over and over again. I am so glad I found this!
Ethereal, timeless, angelic, forbidden. As if I'm peering behind the fabric of reality and seeing the clockworks of the Cosmos. It fills me with a sense of simultaneous peace and dread. How does one song capture this?
IMHO, the choral music here is one of the most beautiful things Glass has ever done. And that long shot of the approaching 747 creates a perfect match of music and image.
A. Knock knock B. Who's there? A. Philip B Philip who? A. Philip Glass. Knock knock B. Who's there? A. Philip B Philip who? A. Philip Glass. Knock knock...
Yeah these people watched this video like 11 years ago and now they are currently either 11 years older or they are dead. Dark but true. Also think of all the things these people have done in the time they left the comment. Kinda hurts to think about it
You rock, jigowatts! The Warsaw Pact images were the most unsettling to me, back in the 80s..... My favorite part of this clip is always the UAL 747s in and out.
emotionally, this movie has has the biggest effect on me of any film i've seen. its truth, its beauty. i see not just the amazing, breathtaking images in front of me, which constantly implore me to think, question, dig deeper; i see also the massive UNDERTAKING it must have been to capture each image. it's just a marvel, this film. watching it, i marvel at our world and at the film-makers.
I first saw this film on TV at about 5 or 6 years old (1987 ish). For some reason my dad put a TV recorded VHS tape of it on for me and I was mesmerised from start to finish. I found the music and the images haunting (Pruit Igoe particularly so). I found the film upsetting, disturbing even, for reasons I couldn't comprehend. But i kept watching the tape regularly. I dont suppose there were many 6 year olds who would name Koyaanisqatsi as their favourite film. Then the tape was lost for 15+ years. It truly had a significant impact on me. I no longer find it upsetting, mainly because I now have a greater understanding of whats going on in the film but i still find it captivating. I was excited to have tickets to see it on the big screen at Lomdon Festival Hall in 2021 with the Philip Glass Ensemble playing a live score to the film. I was so excited but it was cancelled due to Covid 😢
I too had a dad who showed it to me at an early age. My brother even brought it in for first grade “Show and Tell.” Profoundly shaped my love of the desert Southwest and deep-seated ecological anxiety. Have also seen it live with the ensemble!!
It's from a style called Minimalism which is all about repetition. It's kinda of an acquired taste but once you get into it and understand it a little more, it's pretty amazing stuff.
Every time I watch Koyaanisqatsi I come away emotionally drained. It's very dreamlike and I wonder if it inspired the new movie 'Inception' in any small way? Anyway, thanks to watching this movie I get the incredible feeling that I know my place in the Universe...that I am... A hotdog.
Brilliant movie. Saw this movie on Federation Sq in Melbourne, Australia in Feb 2008 and was really impressed. Food for thought indeed. Brilliant scene of B747s on the runway! Music really finishes it off!
When the industrial revolution was gripping the then developed world (US / colonial europe) by storm in the mid to late 1800s everyone said that factories, refineries, etc. were the temples to backward thinking, and, at the worst, signs of the apocalypse. I, for one, would like to say "you're welcome." Progress can be scary, and it is arguably the job of artists to keep it in check. But let us not forget the true advances in quality of life afforded by the very things this film vilifies. Word.
Watching this movie always make me feel very very small. It is ironic that our own technology, buildings, machines and everything created by humanity, has become huge compared with our daily routines, and it is by those routines that we have created this whole maze.
I really suggest the re-recorded version circa 1998 (speaking about the soundtrack). It's clean, beautiful, and you can listen to all of it on a loop in your iPod without it ever getting boring, even after the record I currently have: 3 days of at least 5 times in a row. It actually has improved my productivity as a student, and now I'm finally getting a job after a lifetime of laziness. This is life-changing music, folks.
I disagree - I tho k this original version is Soo much better - cleaning them doesn’t always make the music better - the new version is too smooth and lacks the power of the original
I love entire album, the film, and the powerful and clear message, all without narration. Modernism is highly overlooked and written off as simplistic and repetitive, but it is much deeper than that. It's a commentary on the question "What is music?" and "What is sound?" and an attempt to convey the Unknowable and the Almighty. As an art form, it's so genius. Like the analyzing the gradients and taking the opposite approach to Romanticism. In this art form, less is truly more. Philip Glass is a genius.
Yeah, those were the good ol´ times. I remember having seen the trailer once or twice in a German cinema when the movie was released. The point is that back then we were close to "just" 4 bn people on Earth and bad things still looked reversible >if< people, governments and business just would have the will to not exhaust the planet.
One of my favourite films of all time. It's about 30 years old now but just as relevant if not more. Baracka and Samsara are more recent but this was from the first one koyaanisquaatsi, powaquaatsi the next one is even better.
Well I unmderstamd. Especially the 747s coming out of the hot air, somehow seeming too fragile to being sent up into the skies to really safely transport hundreds of people, accompanied by the soundtrack featuring a large human choir. There is a spooky quality to it, yet I love it: there is something fascinatring and even soothing about this movie. I fine Ron Fricke's Baraka far more scary, since it reaches cosmic dimensions. 'Koya' remains mainly: the US are doing wrong, but they can't help it.
Hi!It's weird, I have just the opposite feeling between Koya and Baraka. The thing is this that Koyaanisqatsi it's a perfect archetype of human development, and in the 80's, the US was by far the country experiencing the dramatic consequencies of our technological development. That's why I think it's an universal representation of mankind, rather than US society. United States has been the model that ignited the extension of advanced capitalism pattern. Just my opinion. Best regards
Yes, I think both the other two films tried to aim for too narrow a subject matter in comparison to this. I think Powaqqatsi is too much of a regular film. It only focuses on Africa (and technology to a limited extent) and the score is welded to those subjects more than this one. Naqoyqatsi was also too narrow and was far too repetitive, it was just a lot of computer generated images that didn’t try to offer any emotions to the audience (which Koyaniqatsi does in spades).
i saw Koyaanisqatsi five times the week it was released in 83. Made a big impression on me: I sold all my possessions & left the states for good. Koyaanisqatsi & Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"...need I say more? Last year i finally saw the others in the trilogy (& Baraka, too) but none compare with this.
this film is very frightening, not because it shows some nasty or disgusting things but because it has a very specific ominous feel to it. It's as if something bad (or inevitable) is going to happen
To say that this is about any one thing is incorrect, to me Koyaanisqatsi is a culmination of years of progress and humanities loss of its natural relationship with existance. Animals know and do not ponder their place in the universe, they do not feel lost or question their reason for being her. Yet humanity, so disjointed from nature through its own devices and technology finds itself lost in self doubt. It marvels at the wonders of its own creation, distracting itself from what it has lost.
My favourite film. Absoluletly. I had in on vhs - worn out. Now I have the MGM DVD release and very fortunately got a copy of the better IRE full frame version (more image up and down - and sharper)the first authorized version by director Reggio himself - try and find a copy. Fantastic!
There is a narritive here- but i suppose it takes a certain perpective to catch it. Its a coldly objective view of humanity as an almost insect like species, and views human activities through their "vessels" the mass commutes the mass activity, and finally, their mass distruction- of eachother. Its cold but heart-renching.
A machine that devours children, is churning through Gaza. When I hear this song I think; in utter desperation humanity clawing it’s way out of the hell of its own creation by seer force. May God be with those fighting for freedom and liberation around the world. We are vessels for the Holy. The universe trying to understand itself. Driven by love; driven by spite.
The guy who made this movie is not dead. He's alive. In the DVD of the movie he clearly says that this movie is to be intereted differntly by anyone, and that he did not intend it to have any single message. Some people say that this movie criticizes technology some say it is an ode to technology and humans. He did not try to put a
I can't believe anyone would comment negatively on this film. If you'd been in a theatre when it came out - you'd understand - but you aren't, you're watching it - free of charge - in bits an pieces. It was awesome then.. and it is awesome now. (I daresay you'd not be able to enlist Philip Glass to do a score for your animations or your stop motion vids, 'eh?)
Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film.The movie has no dialogue but does feature the Hopi word koyaanisqatsi, translated as "life of moral corruption and turmoil" or "life out of balance." ...
What I got from it is that as we advance in to a species that rely on technology for the most basic of things and locking ourselves in concrete jungle. we lose balance with ourselves and Earth.
I live in Australia and although it has its own personal distinctions ive found that, as a part of the western world it is quite similar to America opposed to Europe. Europe probably differs so much more because of its rich history and culture. I think what that '100056255' was saying, was that the footage shown reveals and gives insights into aspects of human nature in relation to how we as a general whole have chosen to spend our time on this earth as a race.
I agree with Xeuton about the rerecorded version of this gorgeous piece of music. I also think some of the visuals are fantastic (eg the long slow shots of the airplane, the modern building) but others would have been better with another piece of music (eg people at the beach, the explosions at the end).
Absolutely profound. It's hard to put into words, but I can almost "see" REAL truth, might not make sense to you, but it's the only way to describe it.
I hope you will be able to see the full screen version (IRE DVD and some rare tv airings) as opposed to he MGM DVD. The original version has more picture on top and bottom. Anyhow: my fav movie of all times. Period.
Ib respect your opinion. Yet, the look and feel of Koya is very, very American. Especially for Europeans like me. So the universal message can only be perceived as an allegory (= US stand for the entire Western world - which is a far stretch for anyone from outside the US). I don't agree: Twikies, Lokheed, US television, Pruitt Egoe, The Grand Canyon, The street/avenue grid, The Nevada desert atomic bomb tests, LA at night..... That's the US. Europe is very, very different.
They're real cars I remember years ago when i was a teenager passing through Dagenham London where there used to be a massive Ford plant [i'm not sure if there's still a smaller operation there now or not] anyway i thought that they looked like a kids toybox with all the cars lined up but they were most definately real as were the ones in this clip.
This song is called “vessels” because we are building the vessels for gods to inhabit. We mock ancient makers of idols for naïvely thinking a statue could be a place to encounter a deity, but we are still doing this. Instead of wood and stone, we use silicon, concrete, human bodies, etc. The Internet is a god; the Economy is a god; the Military Industrial Complex is a god. But unlike ancient pagan deities, they are distributed across the planet. Those ancient gods were a threat to the nations surrounding them; our modern gods threaten life on the planet as a whole.
Good to see somebody commenting recently. I always thought of the freeways as the blood vessels of the modern organism. If course today I just realised they're all forms of transportation - vessels of travel.
The title translates in English as "Life out of balance" and the movie is meant to provoke thought and introspection, as well as perhaps a call to action, to save the planet (if we can).
To behave efficiently is to behave life a computer, sadly we are too efficient in the sense that its greatest trade off is beauty and detail (as they are obsolete in terms of productivity)
That's how I felt as well. Disappointing considering the tremendously epic artistic quality of the other two movies. I was really looking forward to the 'war' aspect of it, too. :(
@theprivateer83: I disagree somewhat, one must not view our existance merely as a case of survival but more as a case of living. There is a difference, a man can survive on a small amount of food and water, but can a man live with nothing but that? I am inclined to think that he can't. Human beings have an unavoidable desire to feel that they fit in or are a part of something, one must not only consider progress but also the needs of the person's mind and soul.
This is without a doubt my favorite part of the film. The voices are simply angelic, and there's this underlying Cold War darkness that's only driven all the way home by the cut from a parking lot full of cars to an array of tanks and military gear.
I love it when it just goes full-blown frenetic at 5:33, beautiful and strangely immersive. Glass, you either love him or hate him.
This whole documentary gave me the reality check of how suffocating is to live on this planet.
Isn't it incredible though?
i heard so much about this movie i went out and bought the dvd without really knowing what to expect...so i watched it with my mate on a projection screen and instantly loved it! the music and visuals are so evocative and it's never boring as you might expect a film with no narrative or dialogue to be...it's really uplifting and sad and thought provoking at the same time...obviously helps if you've had a big spliff and a couple of jars first! Unique
15 years on your comment holds true. And now we have smartphones and AI.
That 747's shot is so unique and wonderful. I keep watching this movie and can't wait for that shot, so memorable. Reminds me that aviation is not that simple. And the heat on the tarmac is doing a nice effect !
Shako73 it’s cuz of that shot I call this the airplane waltz
@@MisterHolaMan that is a great name for it. 👍
fav part of the movie, its just something else
This music feels like a whole other world. A world where you can come to relax and get away from it all, that's what I do at least. When everything in the real world just becomes too hard to deal with, I know this music is here for me, and I play it over and over again. I am so glad I found this!
What I got from this movie is that the more and more we advance in technology the more and more the Earth begins to look like a giant computer chip.
Scott? Still alive?
the beauty of fractals
And we're fucked because humans are stupid and violent
And now I present, AI. Welcome to the machine.
Ethereal, timeless, angelic, forbidden. As if I'm peering behind the fabric of reality and seeing the clockworks of the Cosmos. It fills me with a sense of simultaneous peace and dread. How does one song capture this?
The reason it’s so surreal is that it puts you in an objective view of your own world
IMHO, the choral music here is one of the most beautiful things Glass has ever done. And that long shot of the approaching 747 creates a perfect match of music and image.
A. Knock knock
B. Who's there?
A. Philip
B Philip who?
A. Philip Glass. Knock knock
B. Who's there?
A. Philip
B Philip who?
A. Philip Glass. Knock knock...
Now he don't have the acess to thus older account.
So are we the unnoticed here? #plottwist
Clapclapclapclap
I honestly don’t feel any pessimism from their film. I only see the favors God has bestowed upon us. Honestly.
love these in digital age terms "prehistoric" comments here. It´s like a time capsule.
I suggest to not comment anymore so they don’t get lost
Yeah these people watched this video like 11 years ago and now they are currently either 11 years older or they are dead. Dark but true. Also think of all the things these people have done in the time they left the comment. Kinda hurts to think about it
Its cool how we are in a time where we can see the internet evolving and how comments are getting almost two decades old.
You rock, jigowatts! The Warsaw Pact images were the most unsettling to me, back in the 80s..... My favorite part of this clip is always the UAL 747s in and out.
emotionally, this movie has has the biggest effect on me of any film i've seen. its truth, its beauty. i see not just the amazing, breathtaking images in front of me, which constantly implore me to think, question, dig deeper; i see also the massive UNDERTAKING it must have been to capture each image. it's just a marvel, this film. watching it, i marvel at our world and at the film-makers.
I first saw this film on TV at about 5 or 6 years old (1987 ish). For some reason my dad put a TV recorded VHS tape of it on for me and I was mesmerised from start to finish. I found the music and the images haunting (Pruit Igoe particularly so).
I found the film upsetting, disturbing even, for reasons I couldn't comprehend. But i kept watching the tape regularly. I dont suppose there were many 6 year olds who would name Koyaanisqatsi as their favourite film. Then the tape was lost for 15+ years.
It truly had a significant impact on me. I no longer find it upsetting, mainly because I now have a greater understanding of whats going on in the film but i still find it captivating.
I was excited to have tickets to see it on the big screen at Lomdon Festival Hall in 2021 with the Philip Glass Ensemble playing a live score to the film. I was so excited but it was cancelled due to Covid 😢
I too had a dad who showed it to me at an early age. My brother even brought it in for first grade “Show and Tell.” Profoundly shaped my love of the desert Southwest and deep-seated ecological anxiety. Have also seen it live with the ensemble!!
Ominous is the only word I can think of to describe this film. It just blows me away every time.
I couldn't agree more! The film speaks volume which no human could equal...
It's from a style called Minimalism which is all about repetition. It's kinda of an acquired taste but once you get into it and understand it a little more, it's pretty amazing stuff.
The constant repetition has a very meditative quality...which i like. And the video is just great!!!
Ah! This is my favorite song from the movie! Thank you so much for the upload!
Every time I watch Koyaanisqatsi I come away emotionally drained. It's very dreamlike and I wonder if it inspired the new movie 'Inception' in any small way? Anyway, thanks to watching this movie I get the incredible feeling that I know my place in the Universe...that I am...
A hotdog.
Philip Glass is incredible...this film makes me wanna go back to the 80s for real!
Probably the most haunting track, Pruitt-Igoe is a close second.
Brilliant movie. Saw this movie on Federation Sq in Melbourne, Australia in Feb 2008 and was really impressed. Food for thought indeed. Brilliant scene of B747s on the runway! Music really finishes it off!
I could watch this for DAYS...
Simply brilliant.
When the industrial revolution was gripping the then developed world (US / colonial europe) by storm in the mid to late 1800s everyone said that factories, refineries, etc. were the temples to backward thinking, and, at the worst, signs of the apocalypse. I, for one, would like to say "you're welcome." Progress can be scary, and it is arguably the job of artists to keep it in check. But let us not forget the true advances in quality of life afforded by the very things this film vilifies. Word.
i love the traffic scenes, los angeles 1980/8 recognized the 2 interchanges... that united plane.. wow! glass rocks!
I thank you for this long clip. It's just the kind of intelligent music I need for not getting a job and making me want to settle in the USA
many of these comments were written 8-10 years ago. It is 2020 now. a new decade, same emotions
you are young. very young
Watching this movie always make me feel very very small. It is ironic that our own technology, buildings, machines and everything created by humanity, has become huge compared with our daily routines, and it is by those routines that we have created this whole maze.
EXCELENTE.
OBRA DE ARTE.
Emocionante, sin palabras.
first saw this at glastonbury 1990. mind blown.
I really suggest the re-recorded version circa 1998 (speaking about the soundtrack). It's clean, beautiful, and you can listen to all of it on a loop in your iPod without it ever getting boring, even after the record I currently have: 3 days of at least 5 times in a row. It actually has improved my productivity as a student, and now I'm finally getting a job after a lifetime of laziness. This is life-changing music, folks.
I disagree - I tho k this original version is Soo much better - cleaning them doesn’t always make the music better - the new version is too smooth and lacks the power of the original
I love entire album, the film, and the powerful and clear message, all without narration. Modernism is highly overlooked and written off as simplistic and repetitive, but it is much deeper than that. It's a commentary on the question "What is music?" and "What is sound?" and an attempt to convey the Unknowable and the Almighty. As an art form, it's so genius. Like the analyzing the gradients and taking the opposite approach to Romanticism. In this art form, less is truly more.
Philip Glass is a genius.
some of those small old cars back then were cute and funny. :)
Yeah, those were the good ol´ times. I remember having seen the trailer once or twice in a German cinema when the movie was released. The point is that back then we were close to "just" 4 bn people on Earth and bad things still looked reversible >if< people, governments and business just would have the will to not exhaust the planet.
이 곡은 그냥 경이롭다.
This song is just Marvelous.
One of my favourite films of all time. It's about 30 years old now but just as relevant if not more. Baracka and Samsara are more recent but this was from the first one koyaanisquaatsi, powaquaatsi the next one is even better.
Beatiful chorus. Phillip is a great musician
Fantastico
Well I unmderstamd. Especially the 747s coming out of the hot air, somehow seeming too fragile to being sent up into the skies to really safely transport hundreds of people, accompanied by the soundtrack featuring a large human choir. There is a spooky quality to it, yet I love it: there is something fascinatring and even soothing about this movie. I fine Ron Fricke's Baraka far more scary, since it reaches cosmic dimensions. 'Koya' remains mainly: the US are doing wrong, but they can't help it.
Powaqqatsi though.
Saw them perform Koyannisqatsi live. They fudged with choir a bit with sampled voices but none of the impact was lost.
I see it live every day in Berlin
This is like floating. So Beautiful.
Hi!It's weird, I have just the opposite feeling between Koya and Baraka. The thing is this that Koyaanisqatsi it's a perfect archetype of human development, and in the 80's, the US was by far the country experiencing the dramatic consequencies of our technological development. That's why I think it's an universal representation of mankind, rather than US society. United States has been the model that ignited the extension of advanced capitalism pattern. Just my opinion. Best regards
essentially a visual masterpiece and groundbreaking for it's time, it AMUSES me that people consider this amateur or bad.
That is the funniest knock knock joke I have heard in a long time! NICE
Is anybody else obsessed with this movie but couldn't get through 10 minutes of the other two?
Yes, I think both the other two films tried to aim for too narrow a subject matter in comparison to this. I think Powaqqatsi is too much of a regular film. It only focuses on Africa (and technology to a limited extent) and the score is welded to those subjects more than this one.
Naqoyqatsi was also too narrow and was far too repetitive, it was just a lot of computer generated images that didn’t try to offer any emotions to the audience (which Koyaniqatsi does in spades).
i saw Koyaanisqatsi five times the week it was released in 83. Made a big impression on me: I sold all my possessions & left the states for good. Koyaanisqatsi & Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"...need I say more? Last year i finally saw the others in the trilogy (& Baraka, too) but none compare with this.
this film is very frightening, not because it shows some nasty or disgusting things but because it has a very specific ominous feel to it. It's as if something bad (or inevitable) is going to happen
Just an amazing trilogy that can be interpreted many ways. At least it has more substance than most newer movies.
To say that this is about any one thing is incorrect, to me Koyaanisqatsi is a culmination of years of progress and humanities loss of its natural relationship with existance. Animals know and do not ponder their place in the universe, they do not feel lost or question their reason for being her. Yet humanity, so disjointed from nature through its own devices and technology finds itself lost in self doubt. It marvels at the wonders of its own creation, distracting itself from what it has lost.
My favourite film. Absoluletly. I had in on vhs - worn out. Now I have the MGM DVD release and very fortunately got a copy of the better IRE full frame version (more image up and down - and sharper)the first authorized version by director Reggio himself - try and find a copy. Fantastic!
There is a narritive here- but i suppose it takes a certain perpective to catch it. Its a coldly objective view of humanity as an almost insect like species, and views human activities through their "vessels" the mass commutes the mass activity, and finally, their mass distruction- of eachother. Its cold but heart-renching.
A machine that devours children, is churning through Gaza. When I hear this song I think; in utter desperation humanity clawing it’s way out of the hell of its own creation by seer force. May God be with those fighting for freedom and liberation around the world. We are vessels for the Holy. The universe trying to understand itself. Driven by love; driven by spite.
It’s amazing. It’s a a music of space.
The guy who made this movie is not dead. He's alive. In the DVD of the movie he clearly says that this movie is to be intereted differntly by anyone, and that he did not intend it to have any single message. Some people say that this movie criticizes technology some say it is an ode to technology and humans. He did not try to put a
Классно и великолепно! Как обычно у Гласса!:)
I can't believe anyone would comment negatively on this film. If you'd been in a theatre when it came out - you'd understand - but you aren't, you're watching it - free of charge - in bits an pieces. It was awesome then.. and it is awesome now. (I daresay you'd not be able to enlist Philip Glass to do a score for your animations or your stop motion vids, 'eh?)
The beauty of the World. Mashallah.
profound work of art, as moving today as when it was made
briliant music!.
Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film.The movie has no dialogue but does feature the Hopi word koyaanisqatsi, translated as "life of moral corruption and turmoil" or "life out of balance."
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What I got from it is that as we advance in to a species that rely on technology for the most basic of things and locking ourselves in concrete jungle. we lose balance with ourselves and Earth.
I live in Australia and although it has its own personal distinctions ive found that, as a part of the western world it is quite similar to America opposed to Europe.
Europe probably differs so much more because of its rich history and culture.
I think what that '100056255' was saying,
was that the footage shown reveals and gives insights into aspects of human nature in relation to how we as a general whole have chosen to spend our time on this earth as a race.
wow this is powerful stuff. The jumbo emerging and appearing to come at ya is intimidating. Maybe cause of the music lol.
I agree with Xeuton about the rerecorded version of this gorgeous piece of music. I also think some of the visuals are fantastic (eg the long slow shots of the airplane, the modern building) but others would have been better with another piece of music (eg people at the beach, the explosions at the end).
still beautiful, very serene
the first shot is sick
It's just amazing
my favorite movie of all time. Interstellar and Tron Legacy are just two movies that draw inspiration from this massterpiece
Absolutely profound. It's hard to put into words, but I can almost "see" REAL truth, might not make sense to you, but it's the only way to describe it.
I hope you will be able to see the full screen version (IRE DVD and some rare tv airings) as opposed to he MGM DVD. The original version has more picture on top and bottom. Anyhow: my fav movie of all times. Period.
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
quote from koyaanisqatsi
Ib respect your opinion. Yet, the look and feel of Koya is very, very American. Especially for Europeans like me. So the universal message can only be perceived as an allegory (= US stand for the entire Western world - which is a far stretch for anyone from outside the US). I don't agree: Twikies, Lokheed, US television, Pruitt Egoe, The Grand Canyon, The street/avenue grid, The Nevada desert atomic bomb tests, LA at night..... That's the US. Europe is very, very different.
They're real cars I remember years ago when i was a teenager passing through Dagenham London where there used to be a massive Ford plant [i'm not sure if there's still a smaller operation there now or not] anyway i thought that they looked like a kids toybox with all the cars lined up but they were most definately real as were the ones in this clip.
2:36 ....--That's the Hiptang!
This song is called “vessels” because we are building the vessels for gods to inhabit. We mock ancient makers of idols for naïvely thinking a statue could be a place to encounter a deity, but we are still doing this. Instead of wood and stone, we use silicon, concrete, human bodies, etc. The Internet is a god; the Economy is a god; the Military Industrial Complex is a god. But unlike ancient pagan deities, they are distributed across the planet. Those ancient gods were a threat to the nations surrounding them; our modern gods threaten life on the planet as a whole.
Good to see somebody commenting recently. I always thought of the freeways as the blood vessels of the modern organism. If course today I just realised they're all forms of transportation - vessels of travel.
brilliant clip.
so many tanks, i never though possible
we watched this in my jazz class. and ppl called the Radioactive Goldfish.... they were cray
I don't know if anybody has seen Werner Herzog's 'Mirage'. The plane landing immediately brought the opening scene of that film to mind.
The title translates in English as "Life out of balance" and the movie is meant to provoke thought and introspection, as well as perhaps a call to action, to save the planet (if we can).
To behave efficiently is to behave life a computer, sadly we are too efficient in the sense that its greatest trade off is beauty and detail (as they are obsolete in terms of productivity)
Knock knock... who's there?
Philip Glass.
Philip Glass who?
Knock knock who's there?
Barry Lyndon one of my absolute favourites too, but why are you mentioning it here, whats the link with koyaanisqatsi?
This film is the most upsetting thing I have ever seen.
That's how I felt as well. Disappointing considering the tremendously epic artistic quality of the other two movies.
I was really looking forward to the 'war' aspect of it, too. :(
Não há duvida! No doubt!
@pim80180 spot on, and the word is Sublime, a composite emotion in which fear is a part.. i love it, the inexorable advance of truth and good
I have never in fact seen the film Avatar, though it is one I'd like to see.
@theprivateer83: I disagree somewhat, one must not view our existance merely as a case of survival but more as a case of living. There is a difference, a man can survive on a small amount of food and water, but can a man live with nothing but that? I am inclined to think that he can't. Human beings have an unavoidable desire to feel that they fit in or are a part of something, one must not only consider progress but also the needs of the person's mind and soul.
This should played on the carousel.😂😂
what area of the world is the Hopi language from?
southwest united states
That's a way to look at it. Point taken. But I disagree with a passion. This is a great film! One of my all time favorites.
i like the part where they sing "aaah"
Nice
@@janbicki2804 👍
Hee haw
Try to listen to it while driving through a forest, in a rain or blizzard, on a dawn or dusk... And you don't need bag of grass any more ;]
gwa gwa
Did anyone realize the highway scene on Vessels was reused in Naqoyqatsi?
lol. I was going to make a fap joke about this, but watched the end and reconsidered.
*HIPTANG!!!!*