Koyaanisqatsi, the first part in Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy (all with music composed by Philip Glass), is available on Google video in it's entirety. I remember seeing a movie poster in a video store for the third one, Naqoyqatsi, and being so interested in it that I ended up buying it before I had seen any of them. I wasn't disappointed. They are fantastic movies that may drag at times but are still endlessly intriguing. If you haven't seen any of them, now's the time. It's free and you only need an hour and a half's worth of free time. And as much as this movie should be viewed on a big screen with much higher quality, you can watch it right below this post or check it out here in a larger version (but not higher resolution). You won't be sorry.
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I'm follow your advices because I like to appreciate music, so I've never heard something like this in my life I also think this is my moment because that movie should be perfect.
Yap, with big screen it is much better! Just buy good video card!
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage 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 explains 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 "unbalanced life". The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is 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.
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The first image in the film is of a pictogram. The section shown depicts several tall darkly-shadowed figures standing near a taller figure adorned with a crown. The next image is a close-up of a rocket during liftoff. The film fades into a shot of a desolate desert landscape. From there, it progresses to footage of various natural environmental phenomena such as waves and clouds.
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