I remember enjoying this film for a good hour, but then when this entire Grid sequence started, I was entranced. I couldn't look away. It was almost hypnotizing. Easily my favorite film of all time.
Ironic that this whole "modern technology" sequence is now just early '80s nostalgia, as most of this technology has itself become obsolete, lifestyles have changed, the jobs no longer exist, or have been outsourced to other countries.
This good 20 minute in total section of the film is what I can only describe as us, as a species, being studied/scrutinized under a microscope. Scurrying about like ants all with a routine.
I remember watching it for the first time in a movie theater and the whole movie audience including myself let out a collective gasp as if we had been running a marathon. This sequence in the movie runs about 20 minutes and near the end the speed of the visuals is so accelerated that you feel like your taking a psychedelic trip on a roller coaster. I had the pleasure of seeing two live performances of this film where the music is live played by the Phillip Glass Ensemble while the movie is projected on a screen. The first time I saw a live performance was at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA. I almost didn't get in because it was a sell out. It was one of the best movie experiences of my life. The second time was at the Hollywood Bowl, also exciting but not as exciting as the Royce Hall performance. Phillip Glass used to do world tours of this program. I'm not sure if he is still doing so.
All those escalators at 2:04 were part of the PATH station underneath the original World Trade Center. Sad to think all of that is completely destroyed now.
Can't believe this is 40 years old now. First saw it in 1985 when I was 17 and never did I think I'd be watching it in my 50s thinking 'Yup, that's exactly where my head is right now..' The Philip Glass soundtrack is perfect too...
Wild that this used to be so bleeding edge to me it seared my soul, yet in 2024 I don't even recognize this world. It's one that is already passed. Most of this would now be robots and arrays of chips, not rows of human people using tools, making sleeker more efficient products of a far smaller size with a hundred times more capabilities. Sometimes with the entire factory automated, not a single piece of human "meat" (as this scene would put it) involved in pumping matter and energy through the canals of the machine. We are truly blitzing toward infinity. I thought I understood the change, but it's another thing entirely when in just one lifetime you see the entire world around you transform twice. I feel like a dinosaur, yet I was born as the digital age was beginning. In no other moment of the entire history of this planet has such fundamental change happened--and sped up!-- like this for a single lifeform. Something is happening quite unlike all happenings before. I feel that's what the movie argues on the whole.
This is the most depressing part of the movie. Not the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe, ghetto scenes or derelict people in the streets. Standing at the machine every day for all my life I'm used to do it and I need it It's the only thing I want It's just a rush, push, cash Yello, Bostich
I just watched the timestamp of that episode and never noticed that. Thats cool. I guess it is kind of fitting. Koyaanisqatsi is basically about the human condition being devoured by technology. In that scene innocent people are devoured by an interdimensional beast
Most of these factories were in America, during the time this was filmed. Now, most of all of them are in China. That’s where most of our goods comes from😒. Problem with that is, if our relationship with China ever goes tits up (and it’s threatening to as of 2023), guess what will happen.
This is how people interact depicted with precision. This stuff is always made just like that. It needs to be made because otherwise humanity forgets itself in short order. We call it "Dog's Stuff" because if it talked, it would be like constant dog barking. I've been living in the placeholder area...that's where there's all that flat screen, driverless cars, and social media stuff is for those who get overwhelmed with Dog's Stuff...to figure myself out, but I'm eager to get into the swing of management :3c I'm glad I got the connections, The Rainbow Path out of society's belly comes naturally to me....So i've been keeping the Doggy Castoffs close. I watch these segments of this film because It gets me all hot and bothered. Ttfn, i'm heading home!
What the hell are you talking about? It is important for you to interact and communicate with others in order to understand and remember who you are as a human being. This is often referred to as "Dog's Stuff," as it can be overwhelming and constantly demanding, like the barking of a dog. You have been living in a place where technology, such as flat screen TVs and driverless cars, and social media are prevalent in order to figure out who you are?? However, you are now ready to take on the responsibilities of management??? You have the necessary connections and feel confident in your ability to navigate through society. Watching certain segments of this film excites you too...
@@daustin8888in many ways it WAS a simpler time than these days. Yeah it had its problems. Every decade does but I’d rather trade todays problems for the ones back then because they pale in comparison to todays!
As a person studying anthropology and space, I believe this is the best visual representation of the "social rhythm" suggested by lefebvre.
I remember enjoying this film for a good hour, but then when this entire Grid sequence started, I was entranced. I couldn't look away. It was almost hypnotizing. Easily my favorite film of all time.
So funny to me to watch people zoom around at ultra-high speed. lol.
Same. I think it may be my favorite movie of all time.
Ironic that this whole "modern technology" sequence is now just early '80s nostalgia, as most of this technology has itself become obsolete, lifestyles have changed, the jobs no longer exist, or have been outsourced to other countries.
It just makes you wonder what this film would look like if it were shot now. The fourth industrial revolution has truly changed a lot
I mean, people are still exploited like this, just not Americans anymore. It’s worse than ever, actually
Samsara is sort of in the sale vein and shot more recently :D
@@MKMousanz Workers unite, eh?
80s nostalgia is already cliche, this movie is timeless lol
I love the cut from the sausage-making machine to the banks of escalators at Grand Central!
Twinkies used to be so big! And they are being handled by workers without gloves...yuck.
Someone else mentioned it could be PATH under Yamazaki's WTC
We are the hot dogs
I noticed that too. It's really genius. There's so many moments like that hidden in this film.
Hell yeah, graduated cum laude off a thesis I wrote that probably took half a page to talk about that cut lmao
This is actually a slow and leisurely pace of life by 2021 standards.
Yep. Everyone so impatient and CONSTANTLY in a frenetic hurry!
If you see Koyaanisqatsi only for Pruitt Igoe and Prophecies, there is one particular sequence that will defeat them all, and that is The Grid.
I also watch Koyaanisqatsi for Koyaanisqatsi.
@@jacobangeles5539I watch it for powaqatsi and Anima mundi
This good 20 minute in total section of the film is what I can only describe as us, as a species, being studied/scrutinized under a microscope. Scurrying about like ants all with a routine.
I remember watching it for the first time in a movie theater and the whole movie audience including myself let out a collective gasp as if we had been running a marathon. This sequence in the movie runs about 20 minutes and near the end the speed of the visuals is so accelerated that you feel like your taking a psychedelic trip on a roller coaster.
I had the pleasure of seeing two live performances of this film where the music is live played by the Phillip Glass Ensemble while the movie is projected on a screen. The first time I saw a live performance was at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA. I almost didn't get in because it was a sell out. It was one of the best movie experiences of my life. The second time was at the Hollywood Bowl, also exciting but not as exciting as the Royce Hall performance. Phillip Glass used to do world tours of this program. I'm not sure if he is still doing so.
Thanks for sharing, those experiences sound incredible.
All those escalators at 2:04 were part of the PATH station underneath the original World Trade Center. Sad to think all of that is completely destroyed now.
makes it all the more poignant
Yeah, but Cheney and the Military Industrial Complex is laughing at you, sukka.
0:04 It sounds like they're chanting "HOT DOGS, HOT DOGS!"
Lmao true
Was this intentional because of the sausages?
Can't believe this is 40 years old now. First saw it in 1985 when I was 17 and never did I think I'd be watching it in my 50s thinking 'Yup, that's exactly where my head is right now..' The Philip Glass soundtrack is perfect too...
My favorite part of the movie :’) Philip glass music is incredible
Hehehe
Every baby you see in this movie is at least 40 years old now
Probably a little older, this film took a few years to make, starting in 1975.
Yep I saw a few kids that were about the age I was then. I’ll now be 50 next year. :/
@@crazyfox9ohmany of the scenes in this segment are from 81 or 82 though. I can tell.
Hypnotic!
4:05 My favorite part of the chorus, which gives me goosebumps, every time I hear it.
"We're functioning automatik
and we are dancing mechanik.
We are the robots."
Kraftwerk, 1978
a constant aggressive flow of people and vital activity, human factory, gutting brains...scary as hell
Still happens on a daily basis all over the world
How many people do you think there were that saw this movie and pointed out "Hey, that's me!!"?
That elderly black lady on the right at 5:00 drinkin her smoothie. 😂 she is cute and funny!
The greatest film ever made.
This is what mania sounds like. The following track makes it perfect.
These people were building the world we now inhabit.
Wild that this used to be so bleeding edge to me it seared my soul, yet in 2024 I don't even recognize this world. It's one that is already passed. Most of this would now be robots and arrays of chips, not rows of human people using tools, making sleeker more efficient products of a far smaller size with a hundred times more capabilities. Sometimes with the entire factory automated, not a single piece of human "meat" (as this scene would put it) involved in pumping matter and energy through the canals of the machine.
We are truly blitzing toward infinity. I thought I understood the change, but it's another thing entirely when in just one lifetime you see the entire world around you transform twice. I feel like a dinosaur, yet I was born as the digital age was beginning. In no other moment of the entire history of this planet has such fundamental change happened--and sped up!-- like this for a single lifeform.
Something is happening quite unlike all happenings before. I feel that's what the movie argues on the whole.
people that need 2 videos at the same time in tik tok yearn for times like these
Processed humanity. It reminds me of Chaplin's Modern times and Symphonie einer Großstadt
This movie is incredible
Punch-card computers baffle me lol
Me too. I was born in 74 and they are STILL before my time. lol
gosh, that was before youtube, when people were really working
3:06 - Time-lapse shot of a woman playing Ms. Pac-Man and it’s from Namco.
I think everyone knows what Pac-Man is.
Damn. I ain’t eaten yet this morning and those potato skins at 4:15 look BOMB! 😂
0:19 - The machine becomes her eyes.
This is the most depressing part of the movie. Not the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe, ghetto scenes or derelict people in the streets.
Standing at the machine every day for all my life
I'm used to do it and I need it
It's the only thing I want
It's just a rush, push, cash
Yello, Bostich
It's the matrix, learn to code, and you'll be free. Lay off the smokes.
Top 10 movie scenes of all time
I had seen this movie in 2010 before I had made the commitment in purchasing the Qatsi trilogy on Blu-ray on April 2021.
This movie gave me chills
6:10 - some kind of genius editing here. In a capitalist society, the man is comparable to meat.
Indeed, people are the "meat" on which the machine is fed.
Also the quick shots of money between those two ideas. Machinery, capital, meat, all moving along the conveyor belt.
Also note at 2:00, it cuts directly from hot dogs on tracks to people on escalators. Visually similar, looks intentional as well.
When an entire society slowly melts into onr organism
Does anybody know what those women do from 0:20 ?
If I had to guess, they are sorting mail.
3:20 looks like he could be The Completionist's dad
He’s teaching him the way of completionism
He looks like a lot of young men these days. lol. The glasses and beard. All of that is back in. :)
2:15 : Un extrait utilisé dans le générique de l'émission Des Racines & Des Ailes.
minimal, yet monumental.
Watched this a very long while and you can say I was shocked when they used The Grid in Stranger Things Season 3 episode 6 54:00 mark
I just watched the timestamp of that episode and never noticed that.
Thats cool.
I guess it is kind of fitting. Koyaanisqatsi is basically about the human condition being devoured by technology. In that scene innocent people are devoured by an interdimensional beast
Fuck stranger things
Most of these factories were in America, during the time this was filmed. Now, most of all of them are in China. That’s where most of our goods comes from😒. Problem with that is, if our relationship with China ever goes tits up (and it’s threatening to as of 2023), guess what will happen.
You should have started this when the moon disappears behind the skyscraper!
Certains extraits comme ceux de 0:15 2:15 ainsi que 2:51 font partie du générique de l'émission Des racines & des ailes
82
I've no idea why this film works as well as it does. It has no right to.
I remember getting high in college
Bout sums it up
Ray of Light by Madonna
this shit go hard
Human life is a ridiculous thing. This movie should be preserved better than the bible. Is the best documentary of our civilization as species.
“We used to build shit in this country"
that's a lot of hotdogs
Le Bon now and vor ever ?
0:54
people are sausages
1:39
Nah Baraka still number 1#
No. Koyaanisqatsi is the GOAT. Without Koyaanisqatsi, there wouldn't be Baraka.
Baraka is cool, but I prefer Koyaanisqatsi
Er jou texaschainsaw the real men
The food looks inedible trash!
Naqoyqatsi. th-cam.com/video/OxHdp10IIgo/w-d-xo.html
This is how people interact depicted with precision. This stuff is always made just like that. It needs to be made because otherwise humanity forgets itself in short order. We call it "Dog's Stuff" because if it talked, it would be like constant dog barking. I've been living in the placeholder area...that's where there's all that flat screen, driverless cars, and social media stuff is for those who get overwhelmed with Dog's Stuff...to figure myself out, but I'm eager to get into the swing of management :3c
I'm glad I got the connections, The Rainbow Path out of society's belly comes naturally to me....So i've been keeping the Doggy Castoffs close. I watch these segments of this film because It gets me all hot and bothered. Ttfn, i'm heading home!
you might want to lay off the meth for a few months.
What the hell are you talking about?
What the hell are you talking about?
It is important for you to interact and communicate with others in order to understand and remember who you are as a human being. This is often referred to as "Dog's Stuff," as it can be overwhelming and constantly demanding, like the barking of a dog. You have been living in a place where technology, such as flat screen TVs and driverless cars, and social media are prevalent in order to figure out who you are?? However, you are now ready to take on the responsibilities of management??? You have the necessary connections and feel confident in your ability to navigate through society. Watching certain segments of this film excites you too...
What
seriously. these movies should be sent into a satellite if aliens ever find us in the future
Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka
Samsara too
And The Tree of Life
Ah, the 80s, a simpler, better time.
I really wish people would stop saying that
@@daustin8888 I really wish people would stop saying "I really wish people would stop saying that".
@@jamesmmcgill I really wish people would stop saying "I really wish people would stop saying "I really wish people would stop saying that"".
@@jamesmmcgillholy fuck, saul goodman
@@daustin8888in many ways it WAS a simpler time than these days. Yeah it had its problems. Every decade does but I’d rather trade todays problems for the ones back then because they pale in comparison to todays!
You think Biden has the integrity to talk honestly to the American people this evening?
1:26