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"It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe..." Godfrey Reggio. Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio boldly caught the attention of the world and stimulated the senses with his landmark feature Koyaanisqatsi, establishing a brave new genre of cinema. A profoundly rich and thought-provoking experience, Koyaanisqatsi is an aural and visual journey across myriad landscapes exploring our dependence on technology and its life-altering effect on the developing world. Presented by legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Koyaanisqatsi reflects a world spinning to the rhythm of machines, of clockwise civilisations marching like ants in a megalopolis, vividly juxtaposing images of herculean aircraft and rocket launches with detailed time-lapse photography - presenting a document of vivid intensity. Combining mesmerising visuals with an electrifying score from composer Philip Glass, incorporating haunting Hopi prophecies in choral arrangements, Koyaanisqatsi is a dynamic meditation of time, place and the bewildering technology that knows no bounds. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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Koyaanisqatsi could just as well mean "Man is an idiot" in the Hopi language, because that is exactly the message of this film. After a few minutes, the initial fascination with nature is replaced by a depressing amazement at what numbskulls homo sapiens are, that we can outdo even lemmings in our self-destructive tendencies... And so on. While more than half of the atmosphere is created by Glass's great music, the material recorded and collected by Godfrey Reggio is not far behind. The ending with the rocket definitely kept me in my chair and made me sit there motionless for a good ten minutes after the credits.
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A wordless documentary, with only music, a camera, and everything interconnected. It’s a documentary about the world and a documentary that has something to say. Without words. It has depth, and that has to be appreciated. Man has changed the world in his own image, but the question is whether that image is better than what existed before man. Not everyone would agree on that.
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