The movie Koyaanisqatsi, is a film produced and directed by Godfrey Reggio. The film shows how we are draining the Earth’s resources by taking and not worrying about the future and how our action in the past can affect us in the future. The word Koyaanisqatsi means “Life out of balance” which comes out of the Hopi language. From the producers website he said “that it didn’t have a specific meaning or value.” Throughout the movies he shows the audience how we as human beings are destroying the natural world around us, with the ever growing use of technology in our daily lives. And how we just see one layer that is on top of many other’s that we just don’t pay any attention to anything else.
After watching the film a second time I noticed how it shows how mankind has evolved and how technology has made us forget about the natural environment and how much we depend on it without knowing it. I like what he said in an excerpt about the movie on how “We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive.” For example how we depend on oil to fuel everything, and not thinking about this precious resource or about the negative affect t can have on nature and future generations.
Mr. Reggio shows the audience how we don’t noticed things in our everyday world; my favorite part was when the people were sun bathing on the beach and showing how oblivious they are being so close to a power plant. To me this show how we don’t care what our action do to our environment and how it can affect us negatively in the short term as well as the long term. All we care about is how we can improve our technology and keep evolving and moving forward. Its funny how we think that the more technology we come up with the “easier” it’ll make our life. It shows that when a building is no longer needed we demolish, instead of how we can look to the natural world to design buildings that could be self sustainable, we designs buildings that are used for a short time then when they are no longer needed we destroy them.
During a part of the film it shows people in New York City and how their life is rotating around their environment. It showed how we move through our steel and concrete jungle working in inefficient buildings, driving on our massive transportation highway systems, destroying landscapes with earth-altering construction machinery to get out much needed recourses to fuel our constant need to grow. I saw how we put nature on the back burner and how it gets in our way and not wanting to deal with. It showed me how mankind wants to move through this fast pace life faster then what I think we were intended to.
The one thing I wished Reggio would have showed in the film is how technology can actually help us resolve some of these problems through architecture and the use of politics to influence culture change. Through the use of architecture and technology these day’s we are able to design building that are capable to be used as more than one use. I think politics can influence the developer and other organizations to start thinking about places were we could use wind to produce electricity instead of damming up river and destroying ecosystems. Giving back to the land instead of just taking out of it, we need to start to find a balance between how technology can helps us in the future and also how it can destroy us.
We have to have some faith that mankind will find some kind of balance connecting the natural resource that we still have and the urban world that is growing, and as we keep moving forward and evolving our technology we have a chance of giving our future generation a balanced world to live in to enjoy nature the way we were able to and I think Koyaanisqatsi is a film that can open our eyes to help prevent some of our future mistakes.
After watching the film a second time I noticed how it shows how mankind has evolved and how technology has made us forget about the natural environment and how much we depend on it without knowing it. I like what he said in an excerpt about the movie on how “We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive.” For example how we depend on oil to fuel everything, and not thinking about this precious resource or about the negative affect t can have on nature and future generations.
Mr. Reggio shows the audience how we don’t noticed things in our everyday world; my favorite part was when the people were sun bathing on the beach and showing how oblivious they are being so close to a power plant. To me this show how we don’t care what our action do to our environment and how it can affect us negatively in the short term as well as the long term. All we care about is how we can improve our technology and keep evolving and moving forward. Its funny how we think that the more technology we come up with the “easier” it’ll make our life. It shows that when a building is no longer needed we demolish, instead of how we can look to the natural world to design buildings that could be self sustainable, we designs buildings that are used for a short time then when they are no longer needed we destroy them.
During a part of the film it shows people in New York City and how their life is rotating around their environment. It showed how we move through our steel and concrete jungle working in inefficient buildings, driving on our massive transportation highway systems, destroying landscapes with earth-altering construction machinery to get out much needed recourses to fuel our constant need to grow. I saw how we put nature on the back burner and how it gets in our way and not wanting to deal with. It showed me how mankind wants to move through this fast pace life faster then what I think we were intended to.
The one thing I wished Reggio would have showed in the film is how technology can actually help us resolve some of these problems through architecture and the use of politics to influence culture change. Through the use of architecture and technology these day’s we are able to design building that are capable to be used as more than one use. I think politics can influence the developer and other organizations to start thinking about places were we could use wind to produce electricity instead of damming up river and destroying ecosystems. Giving back to the land instead of just taking out of it, we need to start to find a balance between how technology can helps us in the future and also how it can destroy us.
We have to have some faith that mankind will find some kind of balance connecting the natural resource that we still have and the urban world that is growing, and as we keep moving forward and evolving our technology we have a chance of giving our future generation a balanced world to live in to enjoy nature the way we were able to and I think Koyaanisqatsi is a film that can open our eyes to help prevent some of our future mistakes.
