Koyaanisqatsi
Life out of balance
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- Music
- Documentary
Overview
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
Keywords
- nature
- technology
- rural area
- civilization
- human vs nature
- social commentary
- man vs nature
- environmental disaster
- independent film
- lost civilization
- avant-garde
- environment
- environmental collapse
- nature documentary
- environmental destruction
- observational documentary
- environmental documentary
- poetic documentary
- no dialogue
- environmental catastrophe
- nature run amok
- dying civilization
- observational cinema
- human in nature
- environmentally-themed
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 27, 1983
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Ed Asner,Pat Benatar,Johnny Carson,Dick Cavett,Marilyn Chambers,Sammy Davis Jr.,Lou Dobbs,Linda Ellerbee,Peter Sellers,Thomas Dolby
- Director
- Godfrey Reggio
- Writer
- Ron Fricke,Guy Debord,Leopold Kohr,Jacques Ellul,David Monongye,Ivan Illich,Michael Hoenig,Alton Walpole,Godfrey Reggio
- Producer
- Godfrey Reggio,Francis Ford Coppola
- Cinematography
- Ron Fricke
- Music
- Philip Glass
- Budget
- $600,000
- Revenue
- $3,200,000
- IMDb
- tt0085809