Koyaanisqatsi

Koyannisqatsi 1982 - Balance of Life

At first the video's audio has a trance like culty type of vibe to it. but when you mix it with what you are seeing in the first two minutes of play it feels you with despair and a burning hatred for what we feel responsible for the slow destruction of the world because we are tampering with it's natural beauty too much.

once the music changes to a calming melody the video change to the untouched natural world with nothing but the earth and it's design. then rapidly changes again into an aggressive scary tone where the video show the human involvement into tearing down the naturally shapes of the earth to manipulate them into mountains of metal architecture. also how the human race is using the only earthed shapes natural space left to test weapons which are built to destroy life of earth and man.

Overall i believe the concept of the whole piece is about how the human race is trying to evolve to fast in a way because we are slowly destroying the earth because we want things faster and easier in life. due to this we are having to use more of the earths natural fuels like oil and wood to make things in life easier like a gas fire Central heating etc. i think watching this piece in the right frame of mind can be powerful enough to influence they why people live, because it gets you to think about whether we actually need to use the earths resources or if we could do without.

thank you for reading

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