You know that life is out of balance.
If you are looking for a provocative film that allows you to feel this problem, I have a classic video to recommend. I just saw it tonight for the first time: Koyaanisqatsi [1]. The 1982 film was directed by Godfrey Reggio. Ron Fricke provided the memorable cinematography [2] and Philip Glass [3] provided the haunting music.
In a documentary that accompanies the current version of the DVD, Reggio explains:
[T]hese films have never been about the effect of technology, of industry on people. It’s been that everyone: politics, education, things of the financial structure, the nation state structure, language, the culture, religion, all of that exists within the host of technology. So it’s not the effect of it’s that everything exists within [technology]. It’s not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe.
The title of the film comes from the Hopi language. At the end of the film, Reggio provided a multi-part definition based on the Hopi etymology:
1. crazy life; 2. life in turmoil; 3. life out of balance; 4. life disintegrating; 5. a state of life that calls for a different way of living.
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