Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--"Koyaanisqatsi"

Film Screening: "Koyaanisqatsi" (Godfrey Reggio, 1982, 86 min, USA, in English, Color, Blu-Ray) / "Koyaanisqatsi," Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. "Koyaanisqatsi" attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the "original" is the proliferation of the standardized. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive. / -- Winner for Best Documentary in Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards (1983)! / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ