— unpredictable thoughts

KOYAANISQATSI

Last night was com­mu­nity movie night at Sher­man Mills. The fea­ture was KOYAANISQATSI.

ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi lan­guage), n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in tur­moil. 3. life dis­in­te­grat­ing. 4. life out of bal­ance. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

Trans­la­tion of the Hopi Prophe­cies Sung in KOYAANISQATSI
“If we dig pre­cious things from the land, we will invite dis­as­ter.“
“Near the Day of Purifi­ca­tion, there will be cob­webs spun back and forth in the sky.“
“A con­tainer of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky which could burn the land and boil the oceans.”

I’ve seen this film more than a dozen times. It’s just as good as the first time I saw it… maybe bet­ter. Life expe­ri­ence cre­ates new nar­ra­tives and jux­topo­si­tions. Koy­aanisqatsi is the first film in a tril­ogy. The sec­ond film Powaqqatsi is focuses on natives of the third world. And Naqoyqatsi is about civ­i­lized violence.

Na-qoy-qatsi: (nah koy’ kaht­see) N. From the Hopi Lan­guage. 1. A life of killing each other 2. War as a way of life. 3. (Inter­preted) Civ­i­lized vio­lence.
–end credit def­i­n­i­tion from the fea­ture film “Naqoyqatsi”.

These are films one must expe­ri­ence and talk about.