Just as importantly, it featured a score by Philip Glass, who, despite being a fixture on the serious music scene since the 1960s, was virtually unknown to the general public. First-time director Godfrey Reggio used slow-motion and time-lapse photography as well as sweeping aerial shots, along with kinetic editing, to contrast scenes of natural beauty and powerful but upsetting images of agricultural, industrial, commercial and residential developments. The experimental movie about the tensions between the environment and the tentacles of modern urban life broke into the national consciousness without the use of words. Anyone who was lucky enough to see “Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance” in the early 1980s will never forget it.
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