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Review: Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance (1983)

February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Oil Mist Collector

As translated in a note at the end of the film, the Hopi word koyaanisqatsi means “crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance, or a state of life that calls for another way of living.” Godfrey Reggio’s film, made over the …   Read More

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