Do you know "Koyaanisqatsy" and "Powaqqatsy"?

Question

What do you think about them?

Answer 1

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance is a 1983 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists mostly of slow motion and time-lapse photography. The documentary contains neither dialog nor narration and relies heavily on music to set the film's tone. Glass and his Philip Glass Ensemble have toured with the film, playing music live in front of the film screen.

The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films, including the films 1988's Powaqqatsi and 2002's Naqoyqatsi. The trilogy depicts different aspects of man and technology.

Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. Still, due to copyright issues, the film was out-of-print for most of the 1990s.


Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation is the 1988 sequel to the experimental 1983 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi, by Godfrey Reggio. It is the second film in the Qatsi trilogy.

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.

As with Koyaanisqatsi and the third and final part of the 'Qatsi' trilogy, Naqoyqatsi, the film is strongly related to its soundtrack, written by Philip Glass. Here, human voices (especially children's and mainly from South America and Africa) appear more than in Koyaanisqatsi, in harmony with the film's message and images.

A part of the movie's haunting musical score ("Anthem Part 2"), by minimalist composer, Philip Glass, was used in the 1998 film, The Truman Show.

Answer 2

I have only heard the music from those movies, composed by Philip Glass, and it is amazing. Excellent minimalist, melodic, hypnotic music.

Answer 3

Nice people, you should hear their surnames though, jeez!