Koyaanisqatsi Essays

‘Bloody Sunday’, directed by Paul Greengrass, was released in 2002, thirty years after the initial event that occurred in Derry on the 30th of January, 1972. The film is a British-Irish co-production by Bord Scannan Na hEireann, also funded by Granada Television, Hell’s Kitchen films and the Portman Entertainment Group, as well as the Irish Film Board. The film won best film at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Photography and Lighting and picked up the British Independent

Thien Tran Mr. Jacobs gjacobs@pps.net Lit & Film 10/20/15 Koyaanisqatsi The film Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, was directed by Godfrey Reggio. The film shows the relationship between humans and nature through the contrast between the music and the visuals. The music composer Philip Glass use tone of the music to guide the audience along the way and provide meaning to what’s taking place in the film The film begins with slow, calm music by Glass played over pictures of the natural world. Sand

The movie Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance by the Hopi people displays hundreds of symbols. More specifically, in the section “The Grid”, the lights on cars and buildings, the people moving in patterns, and the signs represent symbols of a rushed, chaotic life and ungratefulness of nature. Multiple times throughout “The Grid”, people pause to eat at a restaurant or consume pre-made foods such as hot dogs, twinkies, and pop tarts. The inability to stop to make a meal for one's family and to enjoy