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Scene from the indepedent film Koyaanisqatsi with the awesome modern piece Pruit Igoe by Philip Glass. The whole film has no actors, but uses landscapes and cities to convey a powerful feeling of distopia and beauty.

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12/11/2008 6:24:12 AM

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exploder : LVL 48: VP 5: said:

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353 days 14 hours ago...

This is one of my top 10 favourite best ever movies. Thanks for the clip.

This film is almost better than drugs. It is almost entirely time lapse or slow motion. There are only a couple of very short scenes in it that are actually in real time, and they are more surreal than the long and short time perspectives they are set against.

The film also kind of tells a cuationary tale, that all of our modern way of life might be like a rocket shot for the stars, blasting into the sky, but only to explode. The title is Hopi, and means "a way of life that calls for another way of living" or "life in chaos".

I think of this as the only real precurser to The Matrix. Had the same completely outside-the-box effect.

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Neurosis Inc : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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353 days 14 hours ago...

^Yeah, this film kicks ass. The sequel was cool, too, but this one dives deeper.

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Needless_Kane : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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353 days 10 hours ago...

It`s only a model.

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Chroniccheese : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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353 days 4 hours ago...

great movie with great music... if any of you haven`t noticed they play this music in the new Grand Theft Auto

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exploder : LVL 48: VP 5: said:

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353 days 4 hours ago...

^ @ Needless_Kane, this is Spiked Humor, so you get voted down for making good jokes, apparently. +1

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WilliVanilli : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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352 days 23 hours ago...

they also briefly use it in an episode of scrubs when the janitor is stink-eying JD.
i love it

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Rekon : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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349 days 8 hours ago...

I love this Film. Its just so emotive, so sublime and insightful into western culture. I don`t use these terms flippantly because I really mean it.
I first saw this film in Perth, Australia in 1992 as a part of Arts festival called ARTRAGE. Philip Glass was performing LIVE to Koyaanisqatsi projected on a huge screen with The West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Incredibly it rained! For Australia in early summer thats quite unusual. Everyone thought it would be canceled but after a 2 hour, yes 2 HOUR DELAY Mr Glass prevailed and it was relocated to a near-by cinema....and it was utterly profound. The Performance, the music, the film; I will never forget it. That was 16 years ago and I`ve been a big Glass fan since:)

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kingoflight : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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348 days 20 hours ago...

EPIC BOREDOM !

Sorry but its a ZZZZzzz fest

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Rekon : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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348 days 9 hours ago...

Watching a film like this isnt for everyone, its got to do with your own taste. I will say this though; impatiently waiting for some suprise or event will be in vain, this is more like experiencing a texture of emotion. So yes a ZZZZZzzzz fest, but why not find out what happens when you sleep...

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