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28.02.2018
EVENT: Guckst du - Kinoabend im CRCLR Haus
28.02.2018
We will kick off our first screening of "Guckst du" our monthly movie program. It will be focused on topics such as environment, human interaction with nature, sustainable energies, social issues. Movies, feature or documentaries that forces us to question our actions and ruminate our place on Planet Earth. _____________ Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - Godfrey Reggio Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word and it means „life out of balance“ Koyaanisqat is also a debut film by Godfrey Reggio , created between 1975 and 1982. Film is a visual and musical experience without dialogue or narration and directors vision of coallision of two different worlds: urban life and technology ( and its fast development) versus environment. Music score was composed by Philip Glass. One of the main purpose of a film as a medium is to tackle and provoce and make us (re) think and (re)act. Koyaanisqat is one of the groundbreaking films made, where the nature vs man or man vs nature is its main plot, without giving any explanations or narrative, it just leaves you with images upon images of life, our way of living , high technology and its impact on our environment. As described by the director itself: „Koyaanisqatsi is not so much about something, nor does it have a specific meaning or value , the meaning is in the eyes of the beholder. Its the encounter a viewer has with the film that matters. In the meaning of art alone, Koyaanisqatsi is whatever you wish to make of it.“ Godfrey Reggio was born in New Orleans, USA in 1940. Godfrey Reggio is a pioneer of a film style that creates poetic images of extraordinary emotional impact for audiences worldwide. Reggio is prominent in the film world for his QATSI trilogy, essays of visual images and sound that chronicle the destructive impact of the modern world on the environment. Reggio, who spent 14 years in silence and prayer while studying to be a monk, has a history of service not only to the environment but to youth street gangs, the poor, and the community as well. Koyaanisqatsi (1983), Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy. Read more