Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio ~ Life out of Balance

Koyaanisqatsi (1982) is Godfrey Reggio‘s 87-minute, minutely Hopi-inspired expose on the static-hissing, spirit-ending death urge embedded, urgently, in industrialism and glitter-facade of civilization‘s city-wound progress; and can be, thus, construed to be the cinematic enactment of Allen Ginsberg‘s Howl and Other Poems.

Raiazome commends this film, spiritedly, and recommends you watch it with all spirited urgency. As it lacks any dialog, this Wiki can but transcribe the ending text — and that, thereby, may further you to watch it, in the full.

Ending Text

If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.

Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.

A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.