Koyaanisqatsi (part 2 spoiler) - Spotlight on unusual film

[HexagonalBolts]

I remember the first time I watched Koyaanisqatsi and the incredible impact this ending scene had on me. We are reaching out to the sky, to a pure blue simplicity away from all the endless confusion that has come before in the film, only to explode and fall back down, forcing us to reflect for whole minutes on what has come before as that engine tumbles back down..

[shadowfoxe]

This art film is so great; Philip Glass makes the experience so magical. I wish people my age knew about it. Definitely a cult classic~!

[rossidavid]

Remember 9/11

[Puzzoozoo]

2012 could be a turning point for us all.

[mkmfilms2009]

Cool film have you seen Baraka/

Baraaka? That is a very cool film in the same vein as this and powoquatsi?

[DesertFoxKG]

Ashes to ashes dust to dust...

[korikakumei]

does anyone know specifically which rocket incidence this is and in what year? i think it was a russian rocket, but im not sure. im certain it's before the 1980's because the film was produced in 82'. if anyone has an idea, lemme know

[irish89055]

no, not russian but a first generation Atlas from the early 1960's when they tended to blow up while being developed. A later version took off from the cape yesterday, Feb 10, 2009. The first launch scenes are of the Saturn 5 moon rocket... a very reliable ride..

[PiqueBitch]

@korikakumei Atlas B rocket. A testrocket without people inside preparing Apollo 12

Source: German Wikipedia:

"Für den Film wurde neben im Laufe von 7 Jahren aufgenommenem Material auch Archivmaterial verwendet, z.B. beim am Anfang und Ende gezeigten Start einer Saturn-V-Rakete der Apollo-12-Mission und bei einer explodierenden und wieder zur Erde herabstürzenden (unbemannten) Atlas B."

[smartalek1]

YES, what u all said.

If "art" = sharing ways of perceiving the kosmos (world, universe, shared & individual experience) that audience might get by no other means, then this was the 1st real artistic experience I had.

The term "life-altering" is overused, but nothing less describes what experiencing this work does, & it's this last sequence that nails it.

Like the rebel angels thrown from heaven, eternally falling, no surcease even in crashing...

U can't see thru yr old eyes ever again.

[kbdkbd99]

The last movement of the film, the rocket debris flying to earth in slow motion is imho the most significant and moving part of the film when accompanied by Philip Glass's prophecies.

If you close your eyes you can imagine this haunting music being the last orchestration to be played before our time is drawn to it's conclusion.

[Martastik04]

good way to interpret it! I wish I could have been there and actually see the rocket fly in slow motion with my earphones in my ears listening to prophecies. It's an amazing piece an amazing film. Both movie director and Music composer are geniuses!

[Kjaer99]

I agree 100%. After seeing the movie on TV many many years ago I was sold!

And this particular part left me especially spellbound.

I rushed out, bought the soundtrack and proceeded to kill a set of loudspeakers on the subsonic organ that starts the album off (curses!).

Finding the clip here leaves me no less spellbound I must say and sadly... the message of "life out of balance" is as relevant today as it was then.

[imagicination]

....cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky....

look up to the sky and see

the evil chemtrail-activity....

[senna197488]

i cry too , if i remember , i saw this movie for the first time in 1994 when the world formula 1 champion ayrton Senna die at Imola ( san marino republic ) i have been devastated

[CatmanfromPA]

Very depressing but yet powerful movie, it describes most everything as what will happen if you do you do not care for your planet earth.

[ElyanSun]

Fantastic to let your Soul Wandering ...5*****

[csicskafasz]

absolute fantastic...its made me cry :(

[PhilAEG]

In 2000, Koyaanisqatsi was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Probably the best of YouTube !!!

[mrfuzz2]

when i listen to this music, my mind zones out for like a few minutes and my brain is like sending some signals from the music to my head.

[thereisnospoon00]

Ignorance is mean:

Once we come to realize the truth of how humanity came to its current condition, we will have hope to be able to defeat prophecies of doom and destruction.

Knowing the truth will open our eyes and lead us to change. All bad dreams will go away.

The truth is that; we are all born out of balance and separated from the true source of balance. "I" am the problem; first I must overcome ignorance of the truth. I must become the change I want to see in the world.

[88jester]

30 years on i think "Koyaanisqatsi 2012" would be an interesting remake.......

[venancefortunat]

I felt physically ill the first time I saw this film when it was released in the 1980s. Now all the prophecies have come true, as I knew they would back then. Industrial civilization will soon come to end--there is nothing the people of the industrialized world can do against the $600 trillion of toxic debt in the short term, peak oil in the medium term, and global warming in the long term. Perhaps the resource wars will go nuclear.

[rs3739]

I've watched this video several times.

The message in this video is very clear.

Very powerful.

I have tapes of both Koyaanisqatsi and Chronos.

Thanks for posting this video

[partisan72]

My favourite of all times...the cult...

[elektrorelax]

In my opinion, this is the best Space-opera-mowie ever. MASTERPRICE/MAJSTERSZTYK! , ŻE MUCHA NIE SIADA!

[slmorganwalker]

Thanks for posting. Great film although a trifle misanthropic I feel.

[ulquiorraaespada]

This movie was amazing, i cried 3 times :(

Its so amazing, it really makes you think

[tanushinki]

cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky =chemtrails

[mardescrap]

a state of life that calls for another way of living = seeing stupid comments

[grossstadtnacht]

this was my first thougt, too...

this sentence from the movie i'd seen several times long time before, flashed back in my mind when i first read about chemtrails some years ago, and saw the aerial images of the structures of lines created the trails over the country...

[isolde12352]

Een vriend...Jean-Pierre...heeft me vaak gevraagd deze film samen met hem te bekijken. De muziek van Phillip Glass vond hij geweldig.

Nu kan het niet meer...hij is overleden. Hij was verslaafd en heeft veel geleden.

Ik moest huilen om deze gemiste kans. Waarom heb ik dit niet gedaan? Het spijt me Jean- Pierre....misschien lees je dit...liefs!

[honda1311]

The movie is Koyaanisqatsi but who preform the song, is it only a sound track or is this exelent preformance avaliable in other songs as well????

[RalfMBecker]

Philip Glass is one of the leading minimal music composers who also performs the music. You can find ample amount of his recordings anywhere.

[deepbluehue3]

I don't think ' spoiler' was needed ... the definition no way detracts from the effect when seeing it again ...

[OneEyedxPMEL]

I love the song... it's kinda haunting though. ^^;

[bax323]

Actually thats not the Challenger it is a unmanned spacecraft. Koyaanisqatsi was made before Challenger disaster.

[deepbluehue3]

You sort of assume it was though ... these days ...as that was our point of history ...

clearly here , the hair and clothing is from a few years previous ! ....

[sheerbeauty]

Challenger blowing up was tragic...so was the Hindenberg explosion...tragedy is part of life.

[sheerbeauty]

Maybe I'm insensitive or cynical, but this film had little negative emotional impact on me. I thought it was a lovely look at Western life and I never believed in civilization anyway. They rise and they fall and are not intended to be permanent. Only God is permanent.

[Kourtakias]

This film creates to me a sense of guilt in a way because we are not as 'big' as we sometimes tend to think...fragile...I wouldn't want to go nihilist though...but it seems like we are on our way to some change. I hope as painless as possible...I hope...

[sgl459m]

strange but wonderful music. koyaanisqatsi, translated as "life of moral corruption and turmoil" or "life out of balance."

[elps84]

thanks so much for posting these two sequences. The most profound film i ever saw, and so very prophetic and so very very tragic. Life out of balance. It would be great if someone could make the whole film available. Or at least the opening 10 minutes...

[Dunkelseele]

Lately youtube allowed the posting of long films. If its wanted I will take the pain and upload the whole thing.

[elps84]

wow! it would be really great it the entire film was available here on youtube. If you can take the pain, i would recommend to as many as possible to see this visionary masterpiece here

[scareface999]

@elps

you'll find it easyly on torrent channels

[gitmeout]

"a way of life that calls for another way of living". that's most everyone.

[gitmeout]

"a way of life that calls for another way of living". that's most everyone.

[ZEROmegster]

watch the hard to explain music video by the strokes.

[packamacka]

Our society is so out of balance and this movie captures the mood perfectly even if it was shot 30 years ago. Its uncomfortable to watch yet compelling at the same time....

[jpbeer]

But we, as human race need this to happend, to learn. So it`s good, don`t worry, by nothing, everything, it`s going to be alright.

Cooperate to change it and it will.

We are changing, but the problem is that the goverments aren´t

[Dunkelseele]

No, thats not the problem. The problem is, that humanity itself is an unstable thing. I wont survive. That simple. ;)

[autumnbowler]

His second movie, Powaqqatsi was also really cool. It shows the third world. The first part of Koyaanisqatsi is about the natural world. The second part shows how we changed it, and shows lots of cool explosions! The third movie shows the future, and I didn't like that one as much. It was totally fantasical, and the cool things about the first two movies is that we get to see things as they really are. The third movie is just too out there-too ethereal.

[Dunkelseele]

Right, thats what I thought. He just used too much GFX/SFX. The first one is the best one. Ever will.

[autumnbowler]

This is my favorite movie ever!

You can lay a bunch of theories on it, but really it just shows you humanity from an inhuman perspective. The ultimate neutral observer. This movie also shows how small we are in the scheme of things, the infinite world full of people and objects beyond our control. We are just ripples in a stream of humanity. very cool perspective on things.

[replay3412]

exactly my thoughts on the movie. This is one of the most powerful endings I've ever seen

[uncabro]

yes ...i guess the movie talks about we as depredators...came to this world..trashed it...and then we leave it into and other...and other...and other...untill.....happens the UNIMAGINABLE

the end

our end

our doom for never have learn

[liamstoaster]

I really don't think this movie is supposed to make us think about our doom. I think the movie is supposed to leave viewers asking if life really has to be the way it is. I mean, do we really need to rip the earth apart and poison the air and water?  The trick is that the "Qatsi" films say nothing. They just show pictures and a couple of words, and the viewer decides what message to get from them.

[uncabro]

if you are saying that then you really got the "MESSAGE"..... and me too...

can you belive some of my friend said that this movie was a headache

i guess we need to realize that this planet is not unconditional

nice post

[partisan72]

It reminds me on days when I first saw it,attending an art school,they were the best days of my life.This last part is like a cosmic journey through the universe,music is mindblowing.Koyaanisqatsi.The cult.

[soupdragon1973]

Fantastic!

[Scudbook27]

a visual and sonic journey for the brain.......................am­azing! I will have the trilogy in 2 days time, been dying to see it for ages!

[goldenx360]

RULEZ KOYAANISQATSI AND Phillip glass

[p47plane]

Man, that explosion really hits you in the gut.

[OceanAnimus]

The metal scrape falling is haunting...

Quite an analogy.

[irish89055]

thanks for posting. That Atlas that exploded is still being used in a different form, one of the most reliable rockets ever, 50 years now. Some spacecraft it carried are now on their way to the end of forever...

[humbertabe]

Its strange that in that time period the engineers couldn't devise something superior to the Atlas 5. The one exploding though seems to be only a 3 engine rocket.

[irish89055]

I think in the Atlas and the Titan they found something that worked well, eventually.Both were ICBM launchers. THis was probably one of the failures in test phase 1961 or so. They were numberous failures. John Glenn was a little more nervous riding the Atlas instead of Redstone like Sheppard and Grissom. Yes, they just add strapon solids to give more lift. I still think a kewl documentary and always was amazed by the camera following down. I want to see it hit the water lol.

[irish89055]

yes, an early Atlas before they added boosters. It has that strange steering jet on the side. The first footage is of a Saturn rocket, none were ever lost in flight. This one may have started off course to be exploded by remote control.

[Yasko3]

I'm sure the "space race" between russia and the U.S. at the time had something to do with it. Progress had to be made in a short amount of time. Solution? Strap on a few volitile liquid fuel boosters. It was the fastest, cheapest option. Also dangerous. I'm surprised more didn't blow up.

[humbertabe]

when it is done, then there will be no more hate , and universal nature will still be here and here and here. Humans just a speck in time without memory,