Koyaanisqatsi
Life out of balance
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth.The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
- Director
- Godfrey Reggio
- Signature
- Craft · Tension · Drama
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
10 billed performers
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Movie DNA
How Koyaanisqatsi actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Koyaanisqatsi returned 5.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $600,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Apr 27, 1983
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- No Language
- Country
- United States of America
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