Koyaanisqatsi
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1982 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Godfrey Reggio |
| Cast | – |
| Genre | Documentary, experimental film |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Koyaanisqatsi | – |
| Español | Koyaanisqatsi | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Français | Koyaanisqatsi | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Deutsch | Koyaanisqatsi | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Português | Koyaanisqatsi | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Italiano | Koyaanisqatsi | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Русский | Коянискацци | Koyaniskatstsi |
| 中文（简体） | 失衡生活 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 機械生活 | – |
| 한국어 | 코야니스카시 | Koyaniseukasi |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Koyaanisqatsi | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Koyaanisqatsi | Koyaanisqatsi |
| 日本語 | コヤニスカッツィ／平衡を失った世界 | Koyanisukattsi Heikō o Ushinatta Sekai |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which technological acceleration and natural equilibrium collide within modern civilization
■ Synopsis
A wordless visual composition contrasts landscapes, cities, machines, labor, crowds, and technological systems as signs of a world out of balance.
■ RECIPE Tags
#CivilizationalImbalance #TechnologicalAcceleration #HumanSystem #NonverbalRevelation
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Nature displaced by systems
Reason: The natural world is replaced by artificial scale, speed, and mechanized order.
Related Film: Baraka - Middle: Humans absorbed by technological rhythm
Reason: People appear as units inside flows of production, transport, consumption, and control.
Related Film: Modern Times - Core: Civilization as imbalance
Reason: Progress is shown not as neutral development, but as a total pattern of dislocation.
Related Film: Powaqqatsi
■ Secondary Axes
- Wordless diagnosis: Meaning is generated through image, rhythm, and montage rather than explanation.
Related Film: Samsara - Planetary warning: Human systems are framed as forces altering the conditions of life itself.
Related Film: An Inconvenient Truth
■ Person
- Director: Godfrey Reggio
- Cast: –
■ Structural Tags
#SystemAcceleration #NaturalDisplacement #CivilizationPattern
■ Attribute Tags
#AmericanFilm #1982Film #ExperimentalDocumentary
