Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio·86 min

Ninety minutes, no dialogue, no characters. Reggio cuts time-lapse and slow motion together, clouds and canyons giving way to freeways and assembly lines, and lets a Philip Glass score run the whole thing. The Hopi title means life out of balance.

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