Koyaanisqatsi
First screened in December 2025
Director: Godfrey Reggio. Poetic audiovisual documentary about modern forces of innovation and destruction.

   
Photo © 1982 IRE Productions / American Zoetrope /
Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education,
© 1983 Island Alive / New Cinema
In Brief: Maybe a little sealed-off in its own vibrant, prestige-seeking virtuosity but very absorbing and barely precedented.

VOR: ⑤  Beyond updating/pioneering a whole subgenre that itself has yielded subgenres, it's a landmark in photography and music-to-image camaraderie.

Grade: A–

Awards:
Los Angeles Film Critics Awards: Best Film Music (Philip Glass)
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