Koyaanisqatsi
Life out of balance
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4/27/1983Runtime
86 minsGenres
Overview
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
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A hypnotic visual essay on the collision between human civilization and the natural world, propelled by Philip Glass's relentless minimalist score. Wordless and deliberately paced, it works less as argument than as a meditation on what we've lost to progress.
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Ed Asner
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pat Benatar
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jerry Brown
Self - On TV (archive footage, uncredited)
Johnny Carson
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dick Cavett
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Chambers
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lou Dobbs
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thomas Dolby
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Linda Ellerbee
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jerry Falwell
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mark J. Goodman
Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
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