A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
April 27, 1983
Original Title:
Koyaanisqatsi
Alternate Titles:
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
Кояанискатси
코야니스카시
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
American Zoetrope
IRE Productions
Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
AU: G BR: Livre DE: 6 ES: 7 FI: S FR: U HU: 16 NL: 6 PL: 16 PT: Livre US: NR
Runtime: 86
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
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Additional Photography:
Hillary Harris
Louie Schwartzberg
Christine Gibson
Assistant Camera:
Neil Bockman
David Brownlow
Robert Hill
Roger McNew
Associate Producer:
Mel Lawrence
Roger McNew
T. Michael Powers
Lawrence Taub
Alton Walpole
Director:
Godfrey Reggio
Director of Photography:
Ron Fricke
Editor:
Ron Fricke
Alton Walpole
Executive Producer:
Francis Ford Coppola
Grip:
Dean Alatzas
Roy Hememnez
Mark Muich
Robert Palmer
Idea:
Jacques Ellul
Ivan Illich
David Monongye
Guy Debord
Leopold Kohr
Music:
Philip Glass
Negative Cutter:
Gary Burritt
Original Music Composer:
Philip Glass
Producer:
Godfrey Reggio
Screenplay:
Ron Fricke
Godfrey Reggio
Michael Hoenig
Alton Walpole
Sound Effects:
Randy Thom
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Steve Maslow
Still Photographer:
Phillip Harrington
Karl Kernberger
Wayne V. McGee
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