Koyaanisqatsi
- Documentary
- Music
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.
- Directed by
- Godfrey Reggio
- Written by
- Ron Fricke, Michael Hoenig, Godfrey Reggio, Alton Walpole
Cast
Ed Asner- Pat Benatar
- Johnny Carson
- Dick Cavett
- Marilyn Chambers
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Lou Dobbs
- Linda Ellerbee
- Peter Sellers
- Thomas Dolby
Keywords
- independent film
- social commentary
- man vs nature
- environmental disaster
- nature
- human vs nature
- technology
- rural area
- no dialogue
- lost civilization
- civilization
- environment
- environmental collapse
- nature run amok
- nature documentary
- environmental documentary
- observational documentary
- poetic documentary
- environmental destruction
- environmental catastrophe
- observational cinema
- human in nature
- dying civilization
- environmentally-themed