Koyaanisqatsi [videorecording] = Life out of balance /
Life out of balance
Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; an IRE presentation ; Francis Ford Coppola presents ; produced & directed by Godfrey Reggio ; associate producers, Lawrence Taub & Mel Lawrence.
- Widescreen ed
- Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, 2002.
- 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.
Music written by Philip Glass, directed by Michael Hoenig, conducted by Michael Riesman ; cinematography, Ron Fricke ; editors, Alton Walpole, Ron Fricke. Music written by Philip Glass, directed by Michael Hoenig, conducted by Michael Riesman ; cinematography, Ron Fricke ; editors, Alton Walpole, Ron Fricke.
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
DVD; Dolby digital; 5.1 surround sound.
Technology and civilization.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Civilization, Modern.
303.483 / KOY 2002
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.
Music written by Philip Glass, directed by Michael Hoenig, conducted by Michael Riesman ; cinematography, Ron Fricke ; editors, Alton Walpole, Ron Fricke. Music written by Philip Glass, directed by Michael Hoenig, conducted by Michael Riesman ; cinematography, Ron Fricke ; editors, Alton Walpole, Ron Fricke.
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
DVD; Dolby digital; 5.1 surround sound.
Technology and civilization.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Civilization, Modern.
303.483 / KOY 2002