Thread 211401437

One of the most beautiful movies ever made. Whenever I remember it I want to rewatch it.

Baraka and Samsara are both also good, but the other 2 in this trilogy (powaaqatsi and noyaaqatsi or whatever) I often forget about

I just like the music

>>211401550
Baraka looks better, but I'm not a fan of its constant religious shots and it cuts too fast between scenes.
Samsara is great tho
Chronos is pretty good.
But Koyaanisqatsi is my favorite. I watch it at least one a month.

>>211401437 (OP)
Somehow I need to see this on a big movie theater screen with a good sound system for the Philip Glass music.

>>211401609
I saw Philip Glass and an orchestra perform the score to this live and it was one of the best nights of my life

>Such profound nigger slum footage with ominous background music
>such deep social commentary bro. I am very smart
Mindless slop for pseudointellectuals who like to smell their own farts.

>>211401637
Did you post about this a few months ago? I think it was being shown in New York.
I would also love to see it on the big screen, live orchestra or not.

>>211401606
Yeah you're not wrong, Koyaanisqatsi is definitely the best of the bunch. Samsara might be second for me. Forgot all about Chronos, which is why I'd describe it as the most forgettable lol

Watch it with some anons in about 20-30 minutes on cytube. join the room (deadenddrivein)
not a community. random anons encouraged
Playing a few episodes of Xavier while people get ready.
DED - DEAD END DRIVE-IN

>>211401674
>I'm so much smarter than these guys who enjoy art
The lack of self-awareness and the irony, man

>>211401696
Nah this was way back in 2010(?) in Melbourne, Australia. It was a 3 night thing with the others in the trilogy but I flew in from interstate and could only afford tickets to one night. Chose the main one I guess haha. Super cool to hear it's still being performed though, hopefully it comes back to Australia lol

I remember zapping through the cable channels late one night and finding this. I didn't know anything about it, but I found it strangely mesmerizing and stuck with it to the end.

>>211401674
some of us just wanna take drugs and look at images, lay off buddy

Perfect shroom movie, you don't have to remember what happened 5 minutes ago or what kind of animal you are.

>>211401674
Filtered

>>211401550
Oddly enough, same for me. I saw the whole trilogy back in high school and only ever come back to koyaaniqatsi. Baraka I own in dvd and samsara I saw in theaters when it came out.

>>211401742
Bumping for the movie in 10 minutes.
Have done this a few times and it's been fun

>>211401742
Movie starting.

>>211401844
dang. jealous.
looks like it played in Minneapolis back in March. shit, i could have driven there if I knew.
I cant find any other showings in the US

Koyaanisqatsi is peak. I think if humanity should send a movie to represent itself, this should be it.

>>211401550
I too forget about the others, I remember liking them the first time I saw, but nothing stuck like Koyanisqatsi.

>>211401606
Baraka is my favorite of the others in this style. Samsara is cool, but it feels more produced, a bit too deliberate to my tastes. I wish Baraka had better resolution though.

Chronos is a bit boring, but beautiful too. Another interesting one is Bodysong.

But one thing that I believe fits right in this group is Man with a Movie Camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GyNB4-eN1E

>>211402437
How can I find it playing in future dates? googling only leads me to past show times.
and half the websites I find dont have the theater/museum/event location. like im supposed to know which Museum of Modern Art this is, every fucking major city has the same museum.

>>211402437
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>>211402744
come into the room if you're not doing anything. still early in the film, Baraka on next

>>211401437 (OP)
Tru

Fun fact I once managed to search for this movie online by remembering every letter of it's name

>>211402804
im already there

>>211401606
what about this one? its been on my watch list

come join the stream, we're deciding what to view next

what do we call this genre. The Qatsi films and Ron Fricke films? The term I've heard is "Ambient Documentaries" but what do you think? What other stuff falls into that genre? (I think the documentary For All Mankind)

>>211401437 (OP)
>nothing happens: the film

>>211403462
wiki calls these non narrative docus but they clearly have a narrative, just no actors, or voice overs.
ambient docs sounds nice i guess.
fun fact, Godfrey didnt want this movie to even have a name. but that would have been difficult to deal with

>>211403462
>what do we call this genre?
I haven't seen Koyaanisqatsi nor Samsara nor Baraka, but I think the genre is known as non-narrative films. I would love to see these films because the genre seems right up my alley.

>>211401674
>Mindless slop for pseudointellectuals who like to smell their own farts.
My farts smell like lavender, so yes, I do indeed like to smell my own farts. Seethe.

>>211401952
Yeah I watched it on LSD and it was great.

My only annoyance is how "80's environementalist" it is, but it's also gives it the vibe of "if mother earth didn't want to get raped, why did she look so good?"

>>211403462
In film school they called it a poetic documentary, one of the six documentary 'modes'

>>211403764
>I haven't seen Koyaanisqatsi nor Samsara nor Baraka
I feel bad for you, join the stream. got a few minutes left of Koyaa

>>211401570
Calling it music it's a stretch though

The Color of Pomegranates is next

>>211402353
Thank you. That was a beautiful film. I enjoyed it.

>>211401437 (OP)
it's ironically very nostalgic

>>211401437 (OP)
dumb boring cringe unc movie

>>211401437 (OP)
>>211401550
>>211402646
>>211402108
ron fricke didn't lense the rest of the trilogy and he made baraka and samsara independently of the hack director of koyaanisqatsi. learn what a DP does before you talk about the visuals of films.

>>211405300
what you're saying is that koyaanisqatsi is great because of fricke and not godfrey reggio? what's the story here?

>>211405529
fricke's the DP and koyaanisqatsi has no plot or acting, just photography.

>>211405828
Yeah, but it does have editing, music and a narrative there. I'm not defending Reggio, I don't know the two of them that well, but I thought there was a fight, or some reason why he didn't come back for the others.

>>211405300
why is he a hack?

>>211401437 (OP)
pruit igoe music doesn't fit the footage at all, hack snyder unironically did a better job with that music in watchmen

>>211401550
I tried to watch Samsara with what I thought was a cool, deep, intellectual, artistic female but 5 minutes in she said "Is this how the whole movie is going to be?" and we changed it to some slop instead.

>>211402437
Playing in Seattle July 22

>>211405300
soundtracks of baraka and samsara just don't match up to philip glass

>>211405985
>editing
editor's work
>music
composer
>narrative
lol
>>211406755
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitors_(2013_film)
>>211407549
again, not anything to do with the director

>>211401674
Yeah I hate the nigger slum parts too. Still a very beautiful movie.

>>211401437 (OP)
Kinonisqatsi

>>211407290
dang, no usable flights available. all are connecting 6+ hours with a return flight 9 hours long
oh well.

>>211405300
>learn what a DP does before you talk about the visuals of films.
Wait which one had double penetration?

>>211407834
Whats wrong with Visitors?

I had an idea awhile back of doing a film with the music from Koyaanisqatsi but the visuals would just be youtube videos of black people losing their shit in public

>>211408385
that sounds so based bro haha the libtards would lose it over that!

>>211408385
Music works with any visuals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sKz8RHYOI8

>>211408385

sped up chinese industrial accident videos would work too.

>>211408626
well you just did