When I was in college years and years ago, my group of friends happened across the movie Koyaanisqatsi, an experimental film with no dialogue and no narration.
Instead, Koyaanisqatsi is a visual poem set to a soundtrack by Phillip Glass that focuses on the natural world, human civilization, and technology and the relationship between the three.
“Koyaanisqatsi” comes from a Hopi Indian word meaning “life out of balance,” and you don’t have to watch much of the movie to understand why the title is what it is. The saddest part of the whole film is the fact that it was released in 1982 and things have certainly not changed for the better.
And what brought all this up? Other than some nostalgia for college days gone by?
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