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.
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.