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intertribalKoyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 purely visual cinematic film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialog nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.
I've seen the movie and can attest that it's absolutely amazing. It has definitely helped shape my life philosophy. Interestingly, it's the sort of movie that everyone interprets differently. And yes, the music is great.
I've seen the movie and can attest that it's absolutely amazing. It has definitely helped shape my life philosophy. Interestingly, it's the sort of movie that everyone interprets differently. And yes, the music is great.
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Date: 2007-05-10 05:56 am (UTC)Interestingly, Hopi was the language that Whorf (of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, a.k.a. linguistic relativity, fame) was obsessed with. Okay, maybe not *the* language. He was obsessed with them in general. But it was one of his main examples of different conceptions of time, different ways of thinking, different culture being expressed linguistically (and in turn influencing or reinforcing the ways of thought, or so goes the hypothesis). Not that I'm a Whorfian exactly (it's complicated)--it's just interesting.
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