Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Francis Ford Coppola
Executive Producer
Ed Asner
Self - On TV
Randy Thom
Sound Effects
Pat Benatar
Self
Guy Debord
Idea
Jerry Brown
Self - On TV
Jerry Brown
Self - On TV
Johnny Carson
Self - On TV
David Brownlow
Assistant Camera
Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Dick Cavett
Self - On TV
Jacques Ellul
Writer
Robert Palmer
Grip
Ivan Illich
Writer
Lawrence Taub
Associate Producer
Marilyn Chambers
Self - On TV
Louie Schwartzberg
Additional Photography
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self - On TV
Robert Hill
Assistant Camera
Christine Gibson
Additional Photography
Lou Dobbs
Self - On TV
Gary Burritt
Negative Cutter
Thomas Dolby
Self - On TV
Mel Lawrence
Associate Producer
Linda Ellerbee
Self - On TV
David Monongye
Idea
Leopold Kohr
Idea
Godfrey Reggio
Director
Roger McNew
Associate Producer / Assistant Camera
T. Michael Powers
Associate Producer
Dean Alatzas
Grip
Ron Fricke
Writer
Neil Bockman
Assistant Camera
Michael Hoenig
Writer
Phillip Harrington
Still Photographer
Alton Walpole
Writer
Hillary Harris
Additional Photography
Roy Hememnez
Grip
Philip Glass
Composer
Karl Kernberger
Still Photographer
Wayne V. McGee
Still Photographer
Mark Muich
Grip
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".