Tuesday, April 12

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. It is a full length film without dialogue. This is just a portion, but if you haven’t seen it, it is spectacular. Koyaanisqatsi means "crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living.” A film with an environmental slant, there is a spiritual undertone that expresses the paradox of human separateness and spiritual oneness by contrasting the beauty and power of nature and the kinetic claustrophobia of manmade structures. It is quite beautiful.

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