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Koyaanisqatsi
« on: August 02, 2009, 03:02:15 AM »
I never get tired of bringing this movie to the attension of those who have never seen it.

Where I see rape Magic Jack sees inspiring vista you may see something comletely different.
If you have never seen this please watch and post your thoughts on this or other films that have changed the way you see the world around you.

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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2009, 04:46:29 PM »
Hummmm........




The opera sound track got old really fast for me.

Funny though, I didn't see anyone walking around with cell phones stuck to their ear. :P


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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2009, 05:10:50 PM »
I must not be as "deep" (or stoned) as the other people that commented below the video on you tube but all I saw was a clip of an apollo launch followed by a bunch of footage of natural erosion .

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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2009, 12:59:25 AM »
One of my favorite films of all time!

My ex-girlfriend introduced me to this one and the second one, Powaqqatsi.

Both are excellent, but Koyaanisqatsi is my favorite!!!!!

Thanks for posting the link, as I haven't seen it since we broke up.  I have thought about Koyaanisqatsi a couple of times since, but hadn't been able to watch it again because the DVD's were hers...  Yeah, could have rented them, just hadn't done it.

Time for a re-watch...

Thanks!

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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2009, 09:17:07 PM »
Welding cylinders painted on a cave wall, then they appear to blow up, then an apollo launch, then natural erosion.  After a very boring part 1, I had no appetite or curiosity left to endure any more of this.  I actually have stuff to do.

Doug, you must still be unemployed if you have time to devote to stuff like this, or are you planning a career as a philosopher?   :D
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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2009, 01:52:29 AM »
The name of the film is a Hopie ( spelling ) word that means life out of ballance or cray lfe.

I know its an unusual film but then I liked naked lunch ( most people walked out, didnt get Burrose ).

I believe life is out of ballance to some degree and watch the "techno Ants" in this film do in mnay ways shopw how foolish we are, too me any way...
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« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2009, 04:07:30 AM »
The name of the film is a Hopie ( spelling ) word that means life out of ballance or cray lfe.

I know its an unusual film but then I liked naked lunch ( most people walked out, didnt get Burrose ).

I believe life is out of ballance to some degree and watch the "techno Ants" in this film do in mnay ways shopw how foolish we are, too me any way...

Well I sure don't need a film to show me how foolish we are as a group of dumb humans on this planet.  Trouble with the film is IMO they totally failed the first important rule in film making 101.  Put a hook at the beginning and use it to capture the interest of your audience.  The entire first portion of the film had no hook and bored the shit out of me.
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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2009, 07:33:51 AM »
The film has it's own rhythm.

It's not an adventure film and it never will be.

If you were to see the whole thing, uninterrupted by life's constant distractions, you might find that it hooks you.

Then again, maybe not...

To each his own...

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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2009, 04:49:35 PM »
Ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language),n. 1.carzylife. 2.life in turmoil. 3.life out of balance. 4.life disintegrating. 5.a state of life that calls for another way of living.

Powaqqatsi is a Hopi word meaning "parasitic way of life" or "life in transition". While Koyaanisqatsi focused on modern life in industrial countries, Powaqqatsi, which similarly has no dialogue, focuses more on the conflict in third world countries between traditional ways of life and the new ways of life introduced with industrialization

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73Cmvgt12w

These are two parts of trilogy of films made over 20 years.
Now they are not the light and fuffy stuff we are used to being spoon fed. They seem disconnected and the confusing but they are ment to be. It sup to the viewer to watch and draw the connections ( without James Burke spoon feeding the answeres lol ).

And the composer Philip Glass is one of the most important composers live today. But his music is not mass popular culture buit his place in history will no doubt be as important in the music of man in the late 20th and 21 centyury as Gershwin or Shostakovich was in the firts half
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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2009, 03:43:37 AM »
Hi Doug,

My name is casey and I have a Koyaanisqatsi problem.

Hi Casey, Welcome to KA.

I first rented this on video tape, ask your parents, and watched it two or three times before returning it.  That was nearly 25 years ago and the room could have very possibly smelled funny.  I next got my own copy of Koyaanisqatsi on laser disk, ask your nerdie uncle, ran this movie at least 5 times a year.  The room hasn't smelled funny for twenty years this comming New Years Eve but whose counting.  My Pioneer LD player finally ate it so now I watch it a couple of times a year on DVD, digital video disc, and still enjoy most of it.  I think it's sister ship, Powaqqatsi, is a rip-off, cold and unnervingly cruel in a few places.  I've watched it 1.6 times in the five or so years I've owned it.

So this makes us 1 for 2 on videos.  And NO! I'm not going back to the Smurf thing to see what I didn't miss because it just ain’t there.

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Re: Koyaanisqatsi
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2009, 04:11:50 AM »
Well 1 for 2 is OK.

The Smurf thing is just dam funny.
I was exposed to a fair bit of Socialist thinking in high school and the smurfs tie in quite nicely
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