Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio (1983)

Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi translates from Hopi and Indian term meaning (life out of balance), where the experimental video opens with Ancient native American cave drawings, with non diegetic chanting music playing in the background. When watching Koyaanisqatsi, the visual images vary from extremely dull colouring of the Ancient native American cave drawings to the bright coloured clothing of Americas 1980's dress sense, when observing the imagery used throughout the experimental video, i came up wth the conclusion that the audio used throughout scenes clashes completely with the images shown, for example, when Reggio was focused on the cloud formations over America, the music playing was of a hauting non diegetic nature showing the natural forces that nature intended. I think that the concept of the video is trying to give across is completely up to the audience, i belive that Koyaanisqatsi is giving the message that we are technology, a state of life with another way of living.