Koyaanisqatsi

John C Lyons

John C Lyons

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FINALLY getting around to watching this trilogy. Part one, Koyaanisqatsi, was tonight.

Anyone see it (I am assuming most film vets have)? If you haven't, definitely highly recommended for the cinematography if nothing else...

EVERY single shot (Ron Fricke) - absolute perfection! I dug this doc. Really made me feel like I got to slow the hell down and just take in and appreciate my surroundings more often. They really worked the human circuitry thing quite well. Whew! Great music, if you're into the movie you really do get sucked into it, quite an experience.
 
Yeah, I dug the **** out of the film. It really is one of the best examples of film as poetry. With a score by Phillip Glass, you can't go wrong.
 
KOyaaniqatsi was okay. I love Baraka, i'll tell you i watch it at least once a month. It probably has to be the best cinema experience ever. Another i'd recommend is Chronos. But seriously, Baraka the long slow dolly shot at the beginning with the indian man - WOW!
 
why is it i feel the need to eat some shrooms when watching that film? nah, good stuff, my friends look at me odd after they borrow it to "see what it's like."
 
Digging up an old (way old) thread.

I just watched Koyaanisqatsi for the first time. I appreciated the film, but I don't feel like my life has changed or anything.

However, I was struck by the cinematography. Not only was it breathtaking, but something I noticed is that pretty much each individual shot was framed in such a way that my eye wanted to look at exactly one place in the frame. Even in the shots of thousands of cars driving by, or thousands of people marching around, my eye was drawn to one spot. So much so that it was almost painful to move my focus from that spot and take in the rest of the image. Remarkable that Ron Fricke could do that a few times. Unbelievable that he could do that everytime.

I also patricularly enjoyed how similar the undercranked shots of Pacman resembled the undercranked shots of people walking about. :thumbsup:
 
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Ron Fricke's vision helped create the "planet Earth" series. the style he instituted, panning timelapses, dollying in nature environments, and the depiction of the mechanichal, all led up to what was a revolutionary way to look at the world is now becoming a mainstram look.
 
Yas Kassana said:
KOyaaniqatsi was okay. I love Baraka
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I thought that Baraka was a sublime film, but I think that Koyaanisqatsi has a far superior score - It is a score by Philip Glass from beginning to end, where Baraka is a little too fragmented for me for a film that requires more morph-like composition techniques.
 
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