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Well, it sure looks good. But that's what trailers are cupposed to do, innit.

If anyone's wondering, the music in the first half of the trailer is "Prophecies" by Philip Glass, from the film Koyaanisqatsi.

Philip Glass, I love you! Since the days of Koyaanisqatsi.. *sigh*

It's like a shortened version of Koyaanisqatsi. I like it.

No, they're not schmawy. I'm wondering myself what this has to do with Koyaanisqatsi (or any part of the Qatsi trilogy) and Baraka. Admittedly, I haven't seen Lessons of Darkness, but it seems to come with a somewhat pretentious and judgmental attitude not present in the others.

Koyaanisqatsi ("Life Out of Balance") is a film by Godfrey Reggio that examines our manufactured world and how we are a part it. Baraka was directed by Ron Fricke, the cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi. 'A celebration of humanity' is about the only description I can come up with. It shows us in all our grandeur and ugliness and passes no judgement. I still consider it one of the best films ever made. (The "meanings" of the films are my own interpretations and feelings about them, and not meant to be attributed to their respective creators.)

The Qatsi Trilogy website
Ron Fricke entry at wiki

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For me this film had a pretty profound effect, even more so with Baraka.

More of Koyaanisqatsi can be sampled here...
Resource
Cloudscape

This is a fan video by the same person who did:
modern life is a techno paradise (underworld + koyaanisqatsi)
1946 atomic bomb test + massive attack "angel"
1944 Democratic Revolution in Guatemala + radiohead

very talented...

Thanks Farhad for these Koyaanisqatsi cuts. I love them. Mix, I think the entire movie is political; it's been unclicked, but the arc of the film portrays our continuing arrogant ignorance of the powers of destruction we're bringing to the natural world; and the killing effect that our unnatural world has on us--in the sense that this movie implies a strong stand against that sick drive, I think it's political.

I love this movie.

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The documentary contains neither dialog nor narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the music that accompanies them. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble have toured with the film, playing music live in front of the film screen.

The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between man and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. Still, due to copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

I didn't really want to comment on this because people usually would take it the wrong way. I come from a family of doctors and I must say that in reality this is manifestation of a self indulgent way of trying to understand the world due to autism. That doesn't mean it's necessarily bad or good. It's simple a different form of adaptation to the world around us.

Language and communication only derive their power through one ability, that of being transferable and commonly understood by larger group of people. For example if we all could not agree on one definition of the truth we could not readily be able to discuss it. Because language is simply meant for one group of individuals to understand another.

However I will state that languages differ wildly in how they contextualize the world for example Benjamin Lee Whorf, a well-known linguist, used the Hopi language to exemplify his argument that one's world-view is affected by one's language and vice-versa. In an article, "An American Indian Model of the Universe", he writes:

"The metaphysics underlying our own language, thinking and modern culture... imposes upon the universe two grand COSMIC FORMS, space and time; static three-dimensional infinite space, and kinetic one-dimensional uniformly and perpetually flowing time."

Whorf says that the Hopi language expresses a different metaphysic altogether:

"It imposes upon the universe two grand cosmic forms, which... we may call MANIFESTED and MANIFESTING, or, again, OBJECTIVE and SUBJECTIVE"

Other linguists and philosophers are skeptical of Whorf's argument, either in general, or in its particular application to the Hopi language.

And such the movie In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

Basically in hopi a entire idea or way is captured in one word. The same is for people of the Innuit North who because of their life have over a dozen different ways of reffering to snow. It can be hard-snow, fallen-snow, sliding-snow and so on and so on.

Other languages differ in other ways, some having no concept of time, just seasons. There is no before or after, actions are acted upon. So language is a tool for expressing and contextualizing the world to be shared with others. So in regards to this aren't we simply delving into the mind of someone's unique way of precieving the world?

- durnk

Koyaanisqatsi.

This is from the movie Chronos by Ron Fricke. This is the same man who brought us Baraka and worked on Koyaanisqatsi.
Original music by Michael Stearns.

Great great find. Koyaanisqatsi and the David Bowie collaborations are also good Glass for a newbie.

But if you are too hep to ever consider dabbling in the soundtracks or mashups, then go ahead and rip all six hours of Einstein on the Beach. So so good.

This is my favorite part of the critically acclaimed film Baraka by Ron Fricke, the cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi.

In addition to making comparisons between natural and technological phenomena, such as in Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka searches for a universal cultural perspective: for instance, following a shot of an elaborate tattoo on a Japanese bather with one of Native Australian tribal paint.

The title Baraka is a word which means blessing in many different languages. The score provided by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard (from Dead Can Dance) and Michael Stearns is noticeably different from the minimalist one provided by Philip Glass for Koyaanisqatsi. Notable music was also contributed by the band Brother.

I urge people to watch the film in it's entirety in the links provided here.