Koyaanisqatsi- Godfrey Reggio
My final revew is of one of the more famous experimental videos, Koyaanisqatsi.
The title, translated from the Uto-Aztecan language Hopi, means ''crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance' and the film reflects that well.
There is no real structured story in this film, just a series of cleverly films scenes pieced together over a soundtrack by American classical music composer, Philip Glass. The scenes depict life moving from cave people to modern life, with some scenes moving slow and others moving really fast.
So mentioned already the video is shot over a soundtrack, but this music is not actually in the scenes so it would be classed as non-diagetic.
The idea behind this video is enviromental, it is about how humans have ruined that which is organic and natural and how our lifes are moving so fast when it could be much slower without technology. In Godfrey Reggio's words,
"These films have never been about the effect of technology, of industry on people. It's been that everyone: politics, education, things of the financial structure, the nation state structure, language, the culture, religion, all of that exists within the host of technology. So it's not the effect of it's that everything exists within [technology]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe..."
After watching this movie I was a little bit confused, it took me a while to work out what message was trying to be brought across. It was, for lack of a better word, a little boring but it was impressive how well made it was and the music was seven shades of awesome.
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