no name yet

pictura est laicorum literatura

Koyaanisqatsi

People interested in sound and vision should take a look at Koyaanisqatsi, a film that made a landmark and set a new way of doing cinematography that is more than common today. I was introduced to the music of Philip Glass by this film and love him ever since.

From wikipedia: Koyaanisqatsi (IPA: [ˈkɔɪɑːnɪsˌkɑːtsiː]), also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and 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.

Not voice over but yet so powerful, emotive and beautiful.

No comments yet »

Your comment

HTML-Tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <pre> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>