Koyaanisquatsi and its successors

Koyaanisqatsi, Microcosmos, Baraka, Home (not that one).

They should have sent a poet.

This is the thread to talk about those films that are about sound and image, about time-lapse photography and sheer natural beauty. No narration, no voiceover, just the world being awesome, in every sense of the word.

Let's watch a bit of Koyaa, where buildings are being demolished:

You may know Pruit Igoe and Prophecies as Dr. Manhattan's Leitmotif.

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:35:10 PM by TheHandle

All I remember of Koyaanisqatsi is this

Regardless, I've seen Baraka twice, each time I've fallen asleep before the 60 minute mark.

How do you fall asleep during Baraka? Unless it was your Sweet Dreams Fuel, I can't understand it.

I think it's a Fun for Some thing. For instance, I loved Koyaanis because I've done some Transportation Theory in college, and seeing the time lapse of people and cars moving around, flowing around each other, like an orchestrated ballet, with lines waxing and waning, with car lights leaving streaks of red and yellow, the planes coming into existence in the middle of a mirage of hot air, that's glorious, that's amazing, it gives it a new reality. Same for the flow of the cloudscapes and Fluid mechanics, or the blowing up of the buildings and structure theory, or the buildings falling and construction theory, with a solid dash of sociology and economics. Those projects looked so abandoned. And then there's the Unintentional Period Piece part, where the architecture, the way people dressed, the cars...

And the rocket, oh my god the rocket, that's so amazing, look at her go, hurling through the void, the unnatural fire returning again and again as it spins over and over!

So, yeah, it was very interesting because, besides the purely aesthetic beauty of it, the thing had a lot of meaning, related to a lot of stuff.

Oh hey, I was looking something up about one of the related films and found that Koyaanisquatsi in its entirety is available for free on Hulu. Nice. Might check that out later.

Anyway, never seen any of them myself, but I know some of the score from Powaqqatsi due to its use in The Truman Show:

Love that piece.

I only know about this from Diamanda Hagan's review.

I bought a DVD of it and the second one because of the GTA IV trailer, heh. That plus I loved the score in The Truman Show. I wasn't bored during it, which I'm proud of considering my age at the time.