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Koyaanisqatsi

Name: Koyaanisqatsi
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1983
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Ed Asner, Pat Benatar, Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, Marilyn Chambers

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.

1983 · Directed by Godfrey Reggio · 86 min · Documentary · Music · 23 frames

Tagline

Life out of balance

Crew

Screenplay: Ron Fricke, Godfrey Reggio, Michael Hoenig, Alton Walpole
Cinematography: Ron Fricke
Edited by: Ron Fricke, Alton Walpole
Music: Philip Glass
Produced by: Godfrey Reggio

Cast

Ed Asner as Self (archive footage)
Pat Benatar as Self
Johnny Carson as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett as Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Chambers as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage)
Lou Dobbs as Self (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee as Self (archive footage)
Peter Sellers as Self (archive footage)
Thomas Dolby as Self (archive footage)

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Studios: IRE Productions, Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education, American Zoetrope
Budget: $600,000
Box office: $3,200,000
Themes: human vs nature, technology, civilization, social commentary, rural area, nature run amok, nature, environment, environmental destruction, lost civilization

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