Word: koyaanisqatsi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHRONOS is not your typical nature film--no magnified bugs and metamorphosizing caterpillars. Like 1983's Koyaanisqatsi, this 44-minute movie plays with your mind, with your sense of time and space. Using time-lapse photography, surreal images and an eerie soundtrack, producer/photographer Ron Fricke has created a new cinematic experience that beats 3-D and Sense-around...
...film's altered states are enhanced by a soundtrack that accompanies and complements the wordless action--just what Philip Glass's music did for Koyaanisqatsi. Composer Michael Stearns presents a new age, Tangerine Dream/Andreas Vollenweider sound, adding exotic drums and bells that complete the foreign aura...
...Nickelodeon proffers its solution to this philosophic dilemma in KOYAANISQATSI. This film makes use of time-lapse photography and a Phil Glass soundtrack to show the natural growth of a plot of land and the literally synthetic growth of a plot of urbanity. The director's bias is not hard to guess. At times; the city footage looks like a Jarvik 7 artificial heart going loco and devouring human beings, or, to be more definitive, New Yorkers...
...copies worldwide since its 1982 release. In Cannes recently, Glass and two others shared the prize for Best Artistic Contribution for their work on Director Paul Schrader's new film Mishima, about the Japanese novelist and warrior manque; Glass also scored Godfrey Reggio's 1982 vision of environmental apocalypse, Koyaanisqatsi. Currently the composer is finishing a new opera based on Novelist Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, to be premiered in Holland in the spring...
Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi (Antilles). The minimalist sound track from the movie stands on its own as a symphonic suite of rare power and passion...