Koyaanisqatsi

Life out of balance

Categories: Documentary, Music
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1983-04-27
Run time: 86 minute / 1:26
Budget: $600,000
Revenue: $3,200,000
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Writers: Ron Fricke, Michael Hoenig, Alton Walpole, Godfrey Reggio.
Website: https://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/
Production Companies : IRE Productions, Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education, American Zoetrope
Production Country: United States of America

Trailer


Ed Asner
as Self (archive footage)
Pat Benatar
as Self
Johnny Carson
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
as Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Chambers
as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Lou Dobbs
as Self (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Sellers
as Self (archive footage)
Thomas Dolby
as Self (archive footage)
Sound
Philip Glass Original Music Composer

Editing
Ron Fricke Editor

Camera
Ron Fricke Director of Photography

Production
Godfrey Reggio Producer

Writing
Ron Fricke Screenplay

Production
Francis Ford Coppola Executive Producer

Directing
Godfrey Reggio Director

Editing
Gary Burritt Negative Cutter

Sound
Steve Maslow Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Camera
Robert Palmer Grip

Writing
Guy Debord Idea

Production
Mel Lawrence Associate Producer

Camera
Neil Bockman Assistant Camera
Christine Gibson Additional Photography

Production
Roger McNew Associate Producer
Lawrence Taub Associate Producer

Writing
Leopold Kohr Idea
Jacques Ellul Idea
David Monongye Idea

Production
Alton Walpole Associate Producer

Camera
Hillary Harris Additional Photography
Wayne V. McGee Still Photographer
Roy Hememnez Grip
Roger McNew Assistant Camera

Production
T. Michael Powers Associate Producer

Camera
Mark Muich Grip
Louie Schwartzberg Additional Photography
Phillip Harrington Still Photographer
Karl Kernberger Still Photographer
Dean Alatzas Grip
Robert Hill Assistant Camera
David Brownlow Assistant Camera

Writing
Ivan Illich Idea

Sound
Randy Thom Sound Effects

Writing
Michael Hoenig Screenplay
Alton Walpole Screenplay
Godfrey Reggio Screenplay

Editing
Alton Walpole Editor

Sound
Philip Glass Music

Art
Paul Pascarella Title Designer





















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