Several things on this film, which I've been meaning to see at some point:
1) Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke both live in Santa Fe, apparently. Have you considered inviting the former to your place of work and calling him a fascist to his face?
2) Have you seen Megalopolis, which Fricke did a lot of Koyaanisqatsiesque cinematography for?? It is such a fascinating movie. Apparently it's a love letter to David Graeber, but it is also kind like watching a Let's Play of an unreleased Playstation 2 adaptation of The Fountainhead. I certainly think you would have a very interesting set of opinions on it.
I have not seen Megalopolis but "a Let's Play of an unreleased Playstation 2 adaptation of The Fountainhead" is fucking poetry Quiara and probably the most enticing description I've heard. Cannot imagine how in the world Coppola thinks it's related to my boy Graeber... Okay I'll watch it.
As for Reggio, LOL I legitimately have imagined this scenario. I have one coworker at the movie theater who loves his movies and is always going on about how we should play them and get Reggio to come for Q&A. I always bite my tongue, although he was in the seminar I watched Koy for so I don't know if he remembers how much I hate it. If he ever manages to make it happen I'll like actually have to ask not to be scheduled for that shift because I will not be able to help causing a scene
The thing with Megalopolis is that all the insults you can levy against it are withering and specific and funny, whereas all the compliments amount to blubbering "well, it's unique..." and then falling back on "he did The Godfather!" But I think the movie is unironically fantastic - it simultaneously feels 500 and negative 100 years old - and probably just hard to square with the ways people evaluate movies. (I loved the movie so much I had my local theater give me the giant poster, and now I sleep every night under the watchful gaze of Adam Driver holding a T-square.) At some point I need to write up what exactly I love about it...
Obviously you need to make the Reggio screening happen, and then have a person relay your critiques Cyrano-style :')
Fascinating take and while I don't remember the details of the film all that well, as I watched it in cinema in mid 1980s and not again in full after that, it does seem to capture the VIBE well.
To the assesment of "Koyaanisqatsi is anti-natalist, pro-extinction cinema." I'd also add that it feels like this antinatalism really (not explicitly but it's there if you look) extends to non human life too. That also is depicted with at least some repulsion if not outright disgust. The only unequivocally beautiful images the author clearly approves of are inanimate landscapes, or ones which are far enough from the eye that they feel so: perhaps it's made by an alien robot/non carbon based life form disgusted by the squelchy, dirty violence of life on Earth.
Several things on this film, which I've been meaning to see at some point:
1) Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke both live in Santa Fe, apparently. Have you considered inviting the former to your place of work and calling him a fascist to his face?
2) Have you seen Megalopolis, which Fricke did a lot of Koyaanisqatsiesque cinematography for?? It is such a fascinating movie. Apparently it's a love letter to David Graeber, but it is also kind like watching a Let's Play of an unreleased Playstation 2 adaptation of The Fountainhead. I certainly think you would have a very interesting set of opinions on it.
I have not seen Megalopolis but "a Let's Play of an unreleased Playstation 2 adaptation of The Fountainhead" is fucking poetry Quiara and probably the most enticing description I've heard. Cannot imagine how in the world Coppola thinks it's related to my boy Graeber... Okay I'll watch it.
As for Reggio, LOL I legitimately have imagined this scenario. I have one coworker at the movie theater who loves his movies and is always going on about how we should play them and get Reggio to come for Q&A. I always bite my tongue, although he was in the seminar I watched Koy for so I don't know if he remembers how much I hate it. If he ever manages to make it happen I'll like actually have to ask not to be scheduled for that shift because I will not be able to help causing a scene
The thing with Megalopolis is that all the insults you can levy against it are withering and specific and funny, whereas all the compliments amount to blubbering "well, it's unique..." and then falling back on "he did The Godfather!" But I think the movie is unironically fantastic - it simultaneously feels 500 and negative 100 years old - and probably just hard to square with the ways people evaluate movies. (I loved the movie so much I had my local theater give me the giant poster, and now I sleep every night under the watchful gaze of Adam Driver holding a T-square.) At some point I need to write up what exactly I love about it...
Obviously you need to make the Reggio screening happen, and then have a person relay your critiques Cyrano-style :')
Fascinating take and while I don't remember the details of the film all that well, as I watched it in cinema in mid 1980s and not again in full after that, it does seem to capture the VIBE well.
To the assesment of "Koyaanisqatsi is anti-natalist, pro-extinction cinema." I'd also add that it feels like this antinatalism really (not explicitly but it's there if you look) extends to non human life too. That also is depicted with at least some repulsion if not outright disgust. The only unequivocally beautiful images the author clearly approves of are inanimate landscapes, or ones which are far enough from the eye that they feel so: perhaps it's made by an alien robot/non carbon based life form disgusted by the squelchy, dirty violence of life on Earth.