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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature. 1st film in the "Qatsi" trilogy.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; an IRE presentation ; Francis Ford Coppola presents ; produced & directed by Godfrey Reggio.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.
Aspect ratio 1.85:1; enhanced for widescreen TVs.
Special features include a new interview with the director and composer and the original theatrical trailers for the Qatsi triology.
Music written by Philip Glass, directed by Michael Hoenig, conducted by Michael Riesman ; cinematography, Ron Fricke ; editors, Alton Walpole, Ron Fricke.