Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Ron Fricke
Director of Photography / Screenplay / Editor
Francis Ford Coppola
Executive Producer
Ed Asner
Self - On TV
Godfrey Reggio
Director / Producer / Screenplay
Pat Benatar
Self
Philip Glass
Original Music Composer / Music
Michael Hoenig
Screenplay
Jerry Brown
Self - On TV
Alton Walpole
Screenplay / Editor / Associate Producer
Randy Thom
Sound Effects
Johnny Carson
Self - On TV
Gary Burritt
Negative Cutter
Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Dick Cavett
Self - On TV
Jacques Ellul
Idea
Ivan Illich
Idea
Marilyn Chambers
Self - On TV
David Monongye
Idea
Guy Debord
Idea
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self - On TV
Leopold Kohr
Idea
Mel Lawrence
Associate Producer
Lou Dobbs
Self - On TV
Roger McNew
Associate Producer / Assistant Camera
T. Michael Powers
Associate Producer
Lawrence Taub
Associate Producer
Thomas Dolby
Self - On TV
Dean Alatzas
Grip
Linda Ellerbee
Self - On TV
Neil Bockman
Assistant Camera
David Brownlow
Assistant Camera
Phillip Harrington
Still Photographer
Hillary Harris
Additional Photography
Roy Hememnez
Grip
Robert Hill
Assistant Camera
Karl Kernberger
Still Photographer
Wayne V. McGee
Still Photographer
Mark Muich
Grip
Robert Palmer
Grip
Louie Schwartzberg
Additional Photography
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 27, 1983
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 26m
Content RatingNR
Budget$600,000
Box Office$3,200,000
Filming LocationsUnited States of America, United States · United States, United States of America
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Wiki.
Koyaanisqatsi ( koh-YAH-nees-KOT-see, Hopi pronunciation: [koˌjɑːnisˈqɑt͡si]), also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, is a 1982 American experimental non-narrative film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage (some of it in reverse) of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. Reggio explained the lack of dialogue by stating "it's not for lack of love of the language that these films have no words. It's because, from my point of view, our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which we live." In the Hopi language, the word koyaanisqatsi means "life out of balance".The film is the first in the Qatsi film trilogy: it was followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. However, because of copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, aesthetically, or historically significant".