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Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi is a cult film I think I might enjoy:

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and 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. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means ‘crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living’, and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

With minimalist music by Philip Glass. You can watch a short bit of the film here, along with a great bit of introduction to the film.

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