Koyaanisqatsi
The movie Koyaanisqatsi, was filmed in the early 1980’s as an experimental film. It served to provide commentary on the struggle between nature and humanity and explored concepts of creation, destruction, chaos, and order. This film’s style of documentary falls under Nichols’ sub style of “Poetic Documentary”. There is no linear story structure and while the film certainly has a message to convey, it is communicated through feeling rather than a directly worded message. Koyaanisqatsi begins with grandiose shots of nature, then shots of humans are introduced, they are beginning to build. We see the sped up buzzing of factory workers, cars on a highway, people on a busy street, with repetitive and complicated music in the background. We see buildings being destroyed, we see slow images of a building burning. All of these images and sounds, their pacing, their placement make the viewer feel, and then think about what they’ve seen. There is a message but there are many ways one can perceive it, or how the film made them feel.
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