One of the shortest scenes from the film Koyaanisqatsi. In 'stunning' 360p Music: Philip Glass Cinematography: Ron Fricke
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@theblueadventurer6152 жыл бұрын
I'm sure there are those who will think this film is stupid or boring, but those of us who care about the way the world moves will sense more than what it shows.
@KreemieNewgatt2 жыл бұрын
In an interview, Godfrey Reggio (director) said, "For some people it's an environmental film, some people it's an ode to technology, for some people it's a piece of shit, for other people it moves them deeply."
@angeloiodice9304 Жыл бұрын
You have to have a commitment to watching the entire lengthy film, uninterrupted, remaining conscious, allowing your thoughts to arise and subside, without judgment, or just watching that judgment. At the completion of the film, your consciousness will be seriously altered, by just watching. Watching this movie is an experience, beyond intellect. You just watch, because you committed to do so, and see where you end up. It is worth the effort.
@feeltheforce79223 жыл бұрын
Ironically this film is even more relevant to contemporary times.
@jsuisdetrop2 жыл бұрын
Not really ironic.
@aek12 Жыл бұрын
So what? Things will go the way they were. Nothing will change. Nobody cares
@thembrown9 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best 3minutes on KZfaq. Everyone who wants to know anything about modern life, or 1980s USA should see this and everyone else should see it anyway. The cuts between these faces are my favourite part of Koyaanisquatsi and for me the most poignant apart from the shocking finale.
@BananaPhoPhilly6 жыл бұрын
*Late 1970s... which actually makes your comment even more accurate. It was a very confusing and conflicting time in America.
@johnspooner14034 жыл бұрын
Why is the finale shocking? I never considered it to be.
@Kazilikaya4 жыл бұрын
@@BananaPhoPhilly So is this time. Also this movie was filmed mostly in the early 80s. You can tell by the technology.
@jayjetson53122 жыл бұрын
@@johnspooner1403 mental illness @ john. put the puzzle together of his comment and you can tell what it is. Its either mental illness and you totally understand but cannot comprehend. Or you are just one of the sheeple out there. who cares. For your health.
@MKMousanz Жыл бұрын
@@johnspooner1403 It's basically a metaphor of how humanity's "aim for the stars" might backfire if we're not careful and humble ourselves. At least that's one of the interpretations I have.
@paskiiainen9 жыл бұрын
I see people who all are thinking something; What do they dream of? Are they happy? Are they in hurry? Is this the life they wanted? Is this remarkable moment in their lives? When normal people can be captured on a film & be played forever? Is it like winning death? There are a a lot of hazzle on the streets. People don't seem to stop, think & enjoy themselves. To me this music represents somehow the simple desperation of living. We all just try to be happy, but then again we can't, we always need something else. Like in this clip, no one is smiling. There are a lot of people, but then again we're all alone with ourselves. There's a huge crowd of people, but they all seem the same. But maybe the main idea of this movie was to make a epic clip of humanity's achievements?
@EphemeralProductions9 жыл бұрын
EXACTLY all my thoughts! You put it almost precisely the way I feel and I couldn't have said it more aptly myself!
@dinosaurcj7 жыл бұрын
I somewhat agree with this comment, however, people not smiling doesn't mean they aren't happy, and people shouldn't always be happy, sometimes we have to feel sad, angry,etc. I know a lot about psychology, and I've learned its unhealthy to always force yourself to be happy, of course, you want to be happy when you can, but sometimes you just need to let it all out, you know? I have to thank you for posting this comment however, it had made me think about being more open. I have the mindset that you could be great friends with near everyone if you just talked to them and got to know them really well.
@vladimirrodionov53917 жыл бұрын
I keep thinking, most of these people are probably dead now.
@herve30able15 жыл бұрын
That was the beginning of Ridley Scott as film maker.
@ninosawbrzostowiecki18924 жыл бұрын
One of the best films ever made.
@KreemieNewgatt2 жыл бұрын
Godfrey Reggio gets the [well-deserved] accolades for this film, but it's the genius of Ron Fricke's cinematography that makes it so special.
@Boundlessness Жыл бұрын
The illusion that we’re going to last forever and that this is immortal. The bright ads and the drunk carelessness of Vegas will crumble with us and all that will be left is an ocean of plastic leftovers from an age of gluttony and overconsumption.
@ethenaux Жыл бұрын
Well said.
@EphemeralProductions5 ай бұрын
Both of which have gotten MANY times worse since this was filmed.
@cliofaces49372 жыл бұрын
Know the self. We are more than the physical.
@Scentless11 жыл бұрын
Those advertisements are so disturbing out of context. They're probably more frightening than the implications of war
@Emberdays12 жыл бұрын
HAPPY 75TH BDAY PHILIP GLASS!!!! Favorite scene in the movie, amazing!
@EphemeralProductions5 ай бұрын
That comment is 12 years old. 😮. That means Philip is now like 87. :(. That means sadly he won’t be with us much longer.
@Kazilikaya4 жыл бұрын
More relevant today than it was back in 1982
@hwyfan8 жыл бұрын
The group of women filmed at 2:46 were cocktail waitresses at a casino (most likely the Four Queens casino) on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
@gloukzarkovitch72929 жыл бұрын
This music and movie just reveal all the grand illusion of our species, our kind. Not only light illusion, or words illusion or the commercial at 1:30, its all about our way of life as a civilization, we are unbalanced and blinded ...
@benthejrporter2 жыл бұрын
The expressions on those people's faces really haunts me.
@shiningarmor28386 жыл бұрын
The only piece in the soundtrack with percussion.
@AKAFT Жыл бұрын
The scene from 0:01 to 0:38 is time lapse photography of people standing in line to place horse bets.
@k10010015 жыл бұрын
2:19 is the best
@rixille4 жыл бұрын
That thousand yard stare.
@EphemeralProductions5 ай бұрын
He sure was good with that stare! Didn’t blink once! Boss! Don’t know how he did it. lol
@olaveiras12 жыл бұрын
Have a barrel of fun,
@rg2027x5 жыл бұрын
Today they're all carrying cell phones, glued to screens, texting while walking..
@MaidenUtah17 жыл бұрын
A foreboding sense of doom, much like the Tangerine Dream score in "Miracle Mile" when the missiles were inbound
@kixr17 жыл бұрын
you got a specific time for that ? in the film?
@manx83777 жыл бұрын
That was an awesome movie too
@adamw29115 жыл бұрын
The pilot scene is fantastic. He's everything a fighter pilot actually is. Deadly serious, wouldn't hesitate to drop a nuclear weapon if ordered to do so.
@ianmangham45702 жыл бұрын
Bollocks
@AngryTinyMan2 жыл бұрын
I don't know; from a distance, he certainly looks that way, but as it zooms in, it seems there is a vague sense of sadness in his eyes.
@Chriscavounis11 ай бұрын
Hit the nail on the head!!
@EphemeralProductions5 ай бұрын
Soldiers of the 60s 70s and even 80s were made of some pretty tough stuff!!!! Not so much anymore though. 😒😞
@EphemeralProductions5 ай бұрын
@@AngryTinyManaww. :(. Never noticed that.
@thegline3 жыл бұрын
This, apart from the opening credits, is the only scene in the movie that has alternate-language subtitles on home video (the billboards).
@justicewillprevail11067 ай бұрын
In fast pace. We see human specie as a whole living organism. But in slow pace, you see every emotions and feels the individualities. Cool film.
@fabriziopasqualone8696 жыл бұрын
This is the result of our evolution? This is the best society ever existed? We should reflect more about this
@pmm17674 жыл бұрын
Until we are aware of more civilisations here on earth lost to time and dust or civilisations elsewhere, we're the best there is :(
@QQRQQQ14 жыл бұрын
Easily the best scene from the film. Thank you for posting!
@hebneh11 жыл бұрын
It doesn't look or sound the same when you're out there in the midst of it, does it? And I don't just mean that it's 30 or 40 years after the footage was shot, either.
@EphemeralProductions13 жыл бұрын
Seeing stuff like this showing the mode of dress and all the "styles" of things in the mid to late 70's and early 80's makes me glad we changed all of them. LOL! :) But it's always cool to see things of a particular era; it's like it's reminding us that that era has a time and place in history, just like this one will.
@SSFhighcommandJOHN2 жыл бұрын
Completely missed the point.
@hand__banana2 жыл бұрын
@@SSFhighcommandJOHN didn't ask don't care cry about it cinawanker
@MKMousanz Жыл бұрын
@@SSFhighcommandJOHN There can be multiple points to this scene/movie. This is a good point to make, though perhaps not *The* point.
@churrascodupao64105 ай бұрын
@@SSFhighcommandJOHNHe/She didn't miss the point. This is an EXTRA point.
@EphemeralProductions5 ай бұрын
@@MKMousanzthank you. 👍🏼😁
@Last_to_Fall11 жыл бұрын
those women staring... had no idea they would be staring into so many people.. they creep me out.. atleast the dark haired one.. and the blonde.. and the 2nd from the left..
@sunyata1507 жыл бұрын
This scene always really impacted me. Although "The Grand Illusion" was a fairly major play, I do wonder if in the context of this movie it is being used a statement about life and how people live.
@RobertS1226 жыл бұрын
It absolutely is. The director of the film could have used any multitude of billboards at the time but he chose THAT billboard. I think it absolutely has meaning.
@Boundlessness2 жыл бұрын
The illusion is that everyone thinks that this system is stable but it’s bound to fail at any time now. I also interpret it as the illusion that we’re satisfied with this structure of living.
@jasonodell79er2 жыл бұрын
Its flat. No globe.
@Boundlessness2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonodell79er No, the Earth is a fucking triangle, you moron.
@hand__banana2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonodell79er thank you odell
@MrSpadeofAce4 жыл бұрын
what strikes me, is that the majority of those people are probably dead... that or very old
@djcorvette83754 жыл бұрын
best film ever made
@alloneword74273 жыл бұрын
Best trilogy ever made.
@user-bl9hh1xm9w6 жыл бұрын
Tzimi's Panousis's Live Show Backround Projections from his 80s & Post-80s Period brought me here!!!
@sojjordan78862 жыл бұрын
yo how real can this actually get. have a BARREL of fun in todays society is def what people are coming to. it is a grand illusion and its my displeasure to share this existence with you things. we should deny our programming.
@drygordspellweaver87612 жыл бұрын
The risqué effluvience of this masterpiece is a hallmark of contemporary bourgeoisie sadomasochism
@GibbousTT Жыл бұрын
bro owns a thesaurus gyatt damn
@lgproductions90052 жыл бұрын
Don't watch this film on acid, kids. Or maybe do. Just make sure it's a small dose, trust me.
@cosecaduteperterra11 жыл бұрын
I must see this video once a day
@yakovlev9996 жыл бұрын
Reminds the terminator 2 intro a bit.
@djcorvette83754 жыл бұрын
i feel the case can be made that most modern artistic masterpieces draw upon this film in some way
@WinChun7826 күн бұрын
I need your boots, your clothes and your motorcycle....
@xochitlarte39482 жыл бұрын
Have some popcorn and 🍬🍕🍫🍹and reflect on this movie.
@dogriffiths5 жыл бұрын
Love this film
@user-gn9mx3mb7k5 ай бұрын
Most of these people who thought their lives were so important are probably dead by now
@feeltheforce79223 жыл бұрын
This film should just be called MAYA.
@matteooliver54243 жыл бұрын
Meraviglioso
@sunyata15011 жыл бұрын
was it called "slo mo people" or something?
@MKMousanz Жыл бұрын
Yes
@Morrphinne11 жыл бұрын
samsara!
@000TheZombie0002 жыл бұрын
Apparently this is Steve Bannon’s favorite film.
@nate_river_2 жыл бұрын
I often wonder what became of all these people. Are any still alive? Were/Are they happy? Did they ever go to see themselves up there, on the big screen? Could they sense the connection to those, many not yet born, who would look into their eyes 40 years later and feel something?
@sethk23847 жыл бұрын
What is the opening scene? Looks like placing bets at a racetrack.
@pearlyd16736 жыл бұрын
Seth K I believe it’s a giant OTB (off track betting) place near Times Square. My grandfather would place bets there, and he’s in this scene, which I discovered accidentally while watching this classic movie on PBS. He’s at 1:30 in, the Big Guy in the yellow shirt and blazer. He was awesome. The grand illusion is that he was a gentle giant:)).
@superbracey3 жыл бұрын
@@pearlyd1673 That's great! Since first seeing this at a very young age on VHS in the 80s, I was often curious about the individuals immortalised in Koyaanisqatsi's scenes. Who they were, what they were doing etc.
@000TheZombie0002 жыл бұрын
And not a single homeless person.
@MKMousanz Жыл бұрын
There's multiple homeless people in this movie, just not on this scene.
@ganiniii7 жыл бұрын
someone call an hairdresser immediately.
@HuemanInstrumentality2 жыл бұрын
480p*
@jessicana7713 жыл бұрын
@Schnitzelfreaks For sure, we're like drones now.
@slicksmcgee254711 жыл бұрын
the woman at 2:16 is the most beautiful i've ever seen.
@Gizaalkemy4 жыл бұрын
"As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.…" Matthew 24:37-39
@JB19949 жыл бұрын
Most of them are dead. I wonder which ones could lay off the KFC and smokes and eat right and exercise, and time travel, one day at a time, to the year 2014?
@MisterHolaMan6 жыл бұрын
Pranx some made it
@MisterHolaMan6 жыл бұрын
...some more than others
@AI-Hallucination8 ай бұрын
2:20 fuck so crazy 😮
@vacomments10 жыл бұрын
@Trotsky87 Dont do it. We must be strong. We must resist the temptation to absorb its essence. The longer we do it... the bigger and the stronger its significance will be. (But it is never easy) :)
@peterwilson55282 жыл бұрын
Bipedal Madness...
@mycatisromeo12 жыл бұрын
Life really beats you down over time. One day, You feel like you don't ever want to die and over time you're starting to be glad that you will eventually die. God? . . .No god.
@jasonodell79er2 жыл бұрын
There is no globe.
@Kozi_art11 жыл бұрын
the ants are wise! WE AREN'T!!!
@rixille6 жыл бұрын
Ants do not have wisdom, they act on instinct and pheromones; and in a way it sustains them.
@pmm17674 жыл бұрын
@@rixille and how different are we? Free will? Dont make me laugh. If anything, I think we are worse off than ants in that sense since our eusocial structure is not well developed nor well structured.
@knittedgandhi49566 жыл бұрын
My comments keep getting taken down. Read them whilst you can... The full film shows, on three occasions, the clear and blatant legacy of the Alien Wars that are being fought on a near daily basis around you/us on Planet Earth. There are instances in the full film that show dead aliens...scenes that show 'people' walking through one another... scenes that show the physics you are taught at 'skool' is but part of the 'Grand Illusion'... scenes that show Aliens among us... and scenes that show the complacency of the "Rich Man's Trick" that fools us all. Wake up. Unplug. Your life is a lie. Wake up. Unplug.
@wkdsurvey53966 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Watch on psychedelics. Once your brain's bias is removed you will see what this film intended, in plain sight, to be seen. People walking through each other. The charade of 'whole' bodies. Non-Human entities. Watchers. Wake up. The Matrix is Real. See this film as just beautiful cinematography and it is 'WHOOOSH' above your head. Unplug and this is how the world really is. Unplug and you will be one of the very few that see what is REALLY going on. The single Universe you happen to be aware of is but one of an infinite variation of infinite multiverses of which each of your infinite vibrational frequencies are experiencing at each and every moment of the Big Bang. Wake Up. The Matrix is Real. Unplug.
@sirwilliamcourtenay93956 жыл бұрын
Absolutely true. People that have grown up with TV and Mass Media have no concept whatsoever of the Grand Illusion. Over 80% of Humans have no issue that 9/11 was a pre-laid demolition... but in the USofA and the UK 80% think the three buildings that collapsed were brought down by the two innocuous, comparatively small, passenger jets that hit just two buildings. The connection... The two "Most Plugged-Into_Mass-Media" countries on the planet!!
@LycanthropeTV6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the advice, “Knitted Ghandi”
@ChatGPT11116 жыл бұрын
Sir William Courtenay Dude, First off, no one can keep a secret, not even who had an affair with who. Lawyers don’t keep secrets of politicians who sleep around. Do you seriously think that no one would have stepped forward by now to produce actual evidence of participation, even anonymously? Also, do you seriously think that Americans of a great enough number to plan and set all these explosives would be party to killing their countrymen on those jets just to have the illusion it was someone else?!? I was in the military and there is no one, and I mean no one that would follow such an order. The structural engineer took the WTC girder failure personally. Fueled Passenger jets on kamikaze stuka dives have the power of extremely large bombs. Have you seen what one plane did to Lockerby Scotland? And that was not running at full throttle. Did you actually see the videos of the impact? The whole building shook violently. Those buildings had a few structural supports in the interior and they were compromised. Skyscrapers are not made to both hold the floors up AND take a direct hit by a fueled jet. I’ve seen the interviews. The fire supression material was blown off the cross members. Americans are not orders of magnitude more evil than these terrorists, sorry you sick clown. I have a close relative that was a first responder there on 9/11 and none of them believe this horse$hit.
@pmm17674 жыл бұрын
@@sirwilliamcourtenay9395 mister courtenay, cease your investigations immediately. We will install a 5G memory eraser outside your home and if that fails we will swiftly bring you under grey alien custody and you will be captured by the men in black. Thank you for your cooperation and we hope you enjoyed your stay in civilisation(tm).