Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, Pruitt-Igoe

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valimar77
April 20, 2009

Koyaanisqatsi also known Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists prim...

Koyaanisqatsi also known Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

Pruitt-Igoe:St. Louis's Pruitt-Igoe housing project is arguably the most infamous public housing project ever built in the United States. A product of the postwar federal public-housing program, this mammoth high-rise development was completed in 1956. The complex was designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the World Trade Center towers.

Only a few years later, disrepair, vandalism, and crime plagued Pruitt-Igoe. The project's recreational galleries and skip-stop elevators, once heralded as architectural innovations, had become nuisances and danger zones. Large numbers of vacancies indicated that even poor people preferred to live anywhere but Pruitt-Igoe. In 1972, after spending more than $5 million in vain to cure the problems at Pruitt-Igoe, the St. Louis Housing Authority, in a highly publicized event, demolished three of the high-rise buildings. A year later, in concert with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, it declared Pruitt-Igoe unsalvageable and razed the remaining buildings.
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KOYAANISQATSI
1. vida loca. 2. vida en tumulto. 3. vida en desintegración. 4. vida desequilibrada. 5. una condición de vida que clama por otra manera de vivir.

Koyaanisqatsi es un viejo vocablo de los indios Hopi para expresar la idea de vida fuera del equilibrio. Se inspira en las profecías Hopi que excavar las riquezas de la tierra es cortejar el desastre que al acercarse el día de la purificación se tejerán telas de araña de un extremo al otro del planeta y finalmente que podría ser que algún día sea arrojado del cielo un receptáculo de cenizas que queme la tierra y evapore los océanos. Con estas tres ideas la película trama un escenario narrativo que se apoya en una técnica cinematográfica singular la de acelerar las imágenes hasta crear un verdadero efecto de vértigo al espectador. Aunque, quizás, no será la Abuela Araña la que teja los hilos, sino el hombre moderno, que levantará sus torres, sus arañas de hierro, tendiendo cables entre torre y torre.

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