Koyaanisqatsi (part 1) - Spotlight on unusual film

[TheMeistereckhart]

1 can easily watch the whole movie, just click on Koyaanisqatsi part 1/9 [thesumofparts] and you'll everyting in good kwal. But 1 could also watch Letterman instead. Why? Because 1 can...

[Sarrasague]

stonnishing beauty & quiet soffering

[OfficialMandK]

I enjoyed the gross amount of Twinkies.

[janinoz]

Where will it all end? We just can't keep taking.......

[spongeprince123]

a spark of revolution by one of history's most unique musicians. sometimes i really wish to follow his mind, and think like he does. Wouldnt that be extraodinary? How did nature come up with this? what is the entire purpose of this? why does watching this make you feel so curious and eager to find out what it means? It gives you the drive and it tells you that somehow it is meaningful, yet you never really quite understand what your trying to interpret out of all this minimalist madness.

[crashtv]

no words...

[manyoutooktoomuch]

people ARE programmed to do things. It was never different in any culture. perhaps it was slower maybe the patterns were not so apparent, but constantly program ourself according to the environment we live in.

[silverstartrucker]

I love this film. Philip Glass's score is brilliant.

[nadametal]

Behaviorism

[Kraftwerkification]

If someone watches without pause should be considered braindead...

[jyamma76]

consume. excrete. create. destroy. ad infintum.

[roboneko77]

I don't get it

[nadametal]

Is good, is bad... is whatever you want!! --perfect objectivity----perfect music--

[Jeltemboi]

Amazing movie almost pshycedelic

LOVE IT

[Sesquiltera]

Cola! Cola! Cola!

[yo171717]

its amazing, i saw the movie yesterday and i wanted to share a piece of it on facebook

[paoloniko]

L'ho visto ieri sera per la prima volta, mi sono reso conto solo alla fine che stavo sbavando. Awesome!

[Sussikeit1]

Brilliant. "Modern Times" in technicolour; Charlie Chaplin knew it would come to this, and this is old news in 2009. Thank you.

[Animalll2003lll]

this music is like a robotic/sped up version of awimbawe, XD. srsly XD. it's awesome.

[MaxSafeheaD]

depressing.

[spencertron88]

this would be the perfect film to broadcast to intelligent extraterrestrial life life...

[clawlesslawless]

they would avoid the place if the saw this film!

[pbchrist]

@spencertron88

this would be the perfect film for them to broadcast to us.

[Bolifrag]

@spencertron88

Hmmm they would eliminate us...

[Eldel15]

Yay I love civilization and globalization CARL SAGAN was right!

[CptSchmidt]

soooo, so good.

[urbinscientist]

De-evolution is real my spud kin folk. Devo wasnt crazy afterall. as the Akron boys said "duty now for the future", that is for "new traditionalists"

[blazinchalice]

I love this film....Magnificent!

I remember showing this to some college dormies back in 1989-blew their minds!

[OPAQUENYLONS]

that FACTORY IS NOW OUTSOURCED

[northerbrewer]

Thats a GM plant they were building the second generation Camaro some where near the end of the production run.

[DRUGMONSTER]

FUCKING TWINKIES !!!!

[albosl]

for me, this is one of the bests movies

well, i was born in 1990, but, i know one thing, the life of 80s is similar of today, because, i can see in this movie big cities, highways, business, cars, pollution, factories, tv, videogames, advertsiments, mass production,etc

but, all this, the humans are destroying the environment

[OPAQUENYLONS]

EXCEPT no internet, no cellphone, no hybrid, lousy fashions, no AFFLICTION CLOTHING, ed hardy T-shirts, junk food, HDTV , black eyed peas, etc and no bullocks, broadway, filenes,gottschalk etc

[albosl]

well, the internet if there in that year(was created in 1969), but, not in homes, only business, university and army

[ekkentros1]

Of course there was an internet you dork. We couldn't afford it because it was mostly universities and the military. The rest of us dialed in to BBS - same stuff, just slower. Email, chat, pronz - nothing changed it just goes faster. Hella better music then, though.

[stopyellingatme22]

this has got to be the BEST movie to watch baked!!!!

[bugabuse]

This movie is best enjoyed while on drugs.

[anirose08]

I watched this film in a freshman cinema class...it really messes with your mind...lol.

[MasterTxJ]

there is a nude blond at about 7:02

[slmorganwalker]

lol.

[MrllGr]

lol

good eyes

[herrrob14]

This film enthralls and repulses me.

[gosh1994]

i agree soundly

[BerndBurkhart]

10th of December 2008. The future is now. And all previews have become true.

[nadametal]

desde este punto de vista la vida parece insignificante, aunque no lo sea

..."La vida no posee riveras

el hombre no posee puertos

ella se desliza

nosotros pasamos"...

[koopa888]

This is my favourite part of the movie, thanks for uploading.

[guywidasickle]

I love hamburgers, fast cars, Hummers and the smell of smog. Do something about it, hippies.

[hollywoodowl]

soon the world will end up like in the beginning of wall-e! time to start some major major change!

[NuculurSplosion]

If by soon, you mean at no point during our life on this planet, or any other time in the future...then yes. Also, I would be really excited if it did. A post apocalyptic junk world would be amazing. Especially one with impossible robots who can have feelings.

[snicka69]

also i dont know about anyone else, but im just waiting with baited breath for this to be re released on Blue Ray!  would be stunning..id definately buy the collection again.

[snicka69]

The best of the trilogy in my opinion. Naqoyqatsi has some interesting bits in too, but i didnt think powasqatsi was as good as either of the other. This however, will never leave my mind. From the first time i saw this as a teenager, film making was never the same. Top, top film.

[guywidasickle]

Its just fast motion factory footage, moron. How impressive can it be?

[southoftheriver81]

you obviously have no idea about cinematography and film making. Oh, and its also got places called Rastaurants in this clip, not just factoreies. Wouldnt think a moron like me would have to point it out to such an inteligent person like yourself. Go watch legally blonde or something....prick.

[guywidasickle]

Hahahhaahahha, fuck youself. There's nothing new. Oooh, a lot of clips in fast motion. HOW INNOVATIVE.

[NuculurSplosion]

I admit, the video without the audio would not be much of anything, but the fusion is an amazing product. guywid, no one said anything about innovative. Things can be very ordinary and still be very memorable or impressive. Car chase scenes are largely the same, but are still memorable. Also, Legally Blonde was funny.

[DamonBoykiw]

NuculurSplosion-- yeah, that was the famous Phillip Glass that did the soundtrack, same guy who did Requiem for a Dream, I believe. I was looking for this film for a while and couldn't find it cause I had no idea how to spell it and then it was a question on jeopardy five days ago that i just happened to see while at someone's apartment and so I found the correct spelling by searching Phillip Glass

[NuculurSplosion]

Yeah, I'm a huge Glass fan. I love Einstein on the Beach and just recently heart his Hero's symphony.

[spookypig]

Nope it's not the same guy who did RfaD.

[koopa888]

And you have a problem with that? wtf

[Animalll2003lll]

XD!!!!!

thanks for posting this. that's the best part :PPP

[SeanButt]

look at the unimaginably vast amounts of energy that must be spent to keep all this shit running and evolving at the rate it is.

[bboyseizure]

wow that was intense!

i'm... stunned!

[Hellguariden]

lol xD

[mikezephyr]

life in this culture is like a video game.

people do things as if it were programmed.

as if they were programmed.

streets contain the flow. concrete chokes what grows.

mass consumption.

mass destruction. mass insanity.

[MGX890]

Yep that's the system.

[shortysmagic]

agreed but how do we stop the madness an get shit bak to a norm

[mikezephyr]

take down a dam, smash streetlights and all-night lamps at factories, tear up roads, shoplift from major corporations, stencil/spraypaint/vandalize inteligently, pour sand/sugar into bulldozers and heavy machinery at subdivision developments/mining/logging sites, release animals from labs, gather your friends and learn to grow/gather food, listen to the land-to what it says and needs, engage others, blow up oil and gas pipelines, sabotage your workplace, beat the shit out of abusers etc

[AirLancer]

In that case, I think I'll get back to bein' a cog in the machine.

[guywidasickle]

You're a dumb hippie faggot. Fuck off and stop trying to fuck with civilized life, idiot.

[nukecat]

@mikezephyr WE WERE CREATED FOR THIS PURPOSE sry about the caps!

[aghily]

thank you

[enxadadoida]

so amazing ^^

[OneEyedxPMEL]

Life is exhausting... that's what I got from watching this. :/

[krushsister]

Congratulations, you're halfway toward getting the gist of the whole film, which is far more "getting it" than most of the Koyaanisqatsi commenters on YouTube. Remember, Koyaanisqatsi = "life out of balance". Though, you know, some of us live off this state of exhaustion and the ever-increasing level of freneticism in life. So it's basically up to your tastes/standards. As with a lot of things in life.

[OneEyedxPMEL]

Why, thank you! I'll take that as a compliment!

I've heard about the Hopi Prophesy so the concept of the movie is not as new to me. Only that it's portrayal of the world, particularly industrial cities makes it harder to accept our current way of life. Are we just gonna let this be? We're not ants... we are humans.

[theproplady]

This film would be AMAZING in IMAX.

It's worth a view just for the vintage video game footage alone. ^_^

[razielz25]

Ahhh... Thanks for posting this. I was flipping through channels and saw this on Showtime. I didn't know what it was but I watched all of it. XD

[Amino2]

how many frames per second are the slow motion shots of people walking?

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

it feels like i sat here for 2 hours

[Trucidek]

me too .__.

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

just goes to show A LOT of consumption as well as other interactions can happen in two measly hours. of course i believe this is filmed in the capital of the world.

[19Osiris71]

First saw this mesmerizing film back in 2001. My interest was piqued by the image on the cover, and I rented it. I've been a fan of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass ever since. Koyaanisquatsi is much more than a movie -- it is a meditation on just how unsustainable this civilization is in its current form. It will definitely make one think of the plight of future generations, and of the reckless wastefulness that marks life in contemporary Western society.

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

yes. this is just sooo far superior to inconvinient truth. 1983, 4 years making time, no words. it's very powerful.

[insomnia100]

I can see how GTA IV could get inspiration from this movie, I'm just not sure why Rockstar didn't make it more public that they did.

[i742]

it is just a fast paced pictures of down town in GTA IV (the trailer), making it close to those in Koyaanisqatsi.Prolly someone in Rockstar development team was a fan of this movie.

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

gta 4 is a masterpiece. it has my eastern european roots, good music, good inspiration.

[FaerieofTwilight]

its brillant. I saw it with my brother on tv a few years ago, and we were like "whoa....." and he said to me "I think they are making a point on our modern world." or somthing like that.

[Picasims]

Wonderful movie!

[rcastaldo666]

the song could be a death metal song if there were guitars that were highly distorted, thats the only real difference i think

[likeicare845]

Sounds awesome.

[Andrewsmate]

This fantastic. The music pulsates. Philip is King

[eliasisttod]

I Love this Movie

[Zackbell009]

ah master piece of movie!!!!!

[mayperso]

Bad trip

[edenmaze]

Pretty Darn Cool!  :~D

[silvietta41]

thanks Yasko3 and my question it's if you now the history behind this film?the Indians's profecy who explain the Assumptions of self-destruction of world...koyaanisqatsi...there is 2st film

following ,"Powaqqatsi" and "????" I have not yet seen.Thanks again from Silvietta41

[heyss]

masterpiece!

[embolymackswhale]

I LOVE PHILIP GLASS.

[SpookyDeeCat]

He's amazing.

[daryllalvero]

the roads almost look like blood vessels...

[hotrodmamasita]

one my fav. films

[Demon21Days]

Esta peli es la ostia, me encanta.

[Jimmy77777]

Looks like Lou Dobbs at 6:48. Man, did that guy always look old?

[ClareHolzer]

Yeah, I saw that too! I had to rewind and look at it again, it's him alright. I didn't realise he'd been around that long.

[ClareHolzer]

I love the clips of the people walking in Vegas, noticing the camera. Their clothes and hairdos are like a flashback. I saw this movie in the theater when it was originally released. Is it out on DVD?

[Zephirus53221]

Yes, it is. It might not be that easy to find (depending on where you live, mostly), but it's not impossible either.

[ghjkfdhgfd]

i saw this on a big screen tv, it blew my fucking mind!

[cantina]

yeah that would be cool! But i also got my mind blown when i saw day after tommorow in cinema... hehe.

[kurt84fstom2]

I have the original on DVD. It's perhaps one of the most esoteric and creative art piece videos I've seen to date.

[N475U0L0V3R]

koy-aaaaaaanisQUATSIIIIII!

[senseimatsamune]

Ja Ja Ja Yo usaba esta Parte de la Pelicula para Hacer mis Tareas de la Escuela...Porque me Aceleraba con la Musica!!

[johnnytothemc]

philip glass sucks.

[RUPickman]

johnny...

Can you teach me the subtle powers of observation and erudite means of expression you so effortlessly wield?

[johnnytothemc]

well, to be honest i had to look up "erudite," but its just not enjoyable music, and it has not conveyed in any way any feeling from Mr. Glass. I'm sure Philip is a genius of some sort, but Dvorak kicks this guy's ass anyday.

[turtleshoes9]

I used to feel the same way. It's an acquired taste, really, but it's pretty great when you get there.

[krushsister]

My favorite parts of this clip are seeing things that are exotic in my eyes -- the old-fashioned grocery store and diner scenes. When I was a teenager, in the '90s, grocery stores had already made the transformation into supermarkets, and diners are rare in my part of the country. Thank you for uploading this clip. Koyaanisqatsi is one of my favorite movies, period.

[wisedup]

smoke and watch...

[Borntobedamned]

We are slaves to time, an endless cycle.

[Depotmaster]

Has manufacturing process in the US fallen behind our standarts, or is this movie a little bit older?

[Yasko3]

It's an older movie, made in the early eighties. Still good, though.

[krushsister]

Actually, even though the movie came out in 1983, Godfrey Reggio (the filmmaker behind this and the other -qatsi movies) actually began working on this film in the mid '70s. So the assembly line footage could've been taken anywhere from 1975 - roughly 1981-ish.

[p47plane]

go to the playlists and choose the one that has every clip in it. I'm pretty sure the whole movies on youtube

[pianerjoe]

err, i guess that's cool, especially for starving poor people. (but wait, why do you have the internet?) but watching this movie on youtube would be very unsatisfying. you at least need an average size tv and nice speakers. the image quality of the dvd's show an immense difference!

[p47plane]

Yes well, not having the movie(yet) I've had to resort to desperate measures