Movie Friday -- Koyaanisqatsi
Escape to the movies with one of our "Film Fridays" selections. Each week we'll feature a movie with environmentally or socially responsible themes that’s currently in theaters or available on DVD.
Seen a good eco-flick lately? Send us a review of 100 words or less and look for your review in the next Movie Friday!
Koyaanisqatsi
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php
In the same way that Rachel Carson's Silent Spring helped book readers learn about our impact on the environment in ways most people wouldn't realize or notice, Koyaanisqatsi did that in the movie world! Not only does the movie show how our choices impact others and the environment, it gives a glimpse at how consumption, population, and technology growth are affecting us and will continue to affect us.
--Review by Green Life Reader Matt Mercure
another excellent movie by Reggio is 'Evidence', a short 8 minute film about little kids watching a television show - Disney's Dumbo. Their expressions are stunned, stunted, as though the children are drugged. Frightening film - a discussion starter (see it on youtube)
Posted by: seawall | April 25, 2008 at 07:42 AM
I saw this film when it first came out about 25 years ago. Even though I haven't seen the film since, or really even talked about it. The images and message have never left and I think of it often.
Posted by: molly | April 25, 2008 at 07:02 PM