This puts me in a horribly tense mood, and the fact you never get to see the engine hit the ground makes me feel like it never ends.
@TheRealSkeletor
2 жыл бұрын
Don't watch Inception then.
@viceroybolt3518
2 жыл бұрын
It doesn't. We're still spinning out of control even now
@MillennialMonk
Жыл бұрын
Great observation. I never thought about not seeing the engine hit the ground until now. And just like the other commenter said it's like we are endlessly spinning out of control.
@thelatenightgamer2624
Жыл бұрын
@@TheRealSkeletor actually the it’s pretty clear he isn’t dreaming as the spinning top starts wobbling and about to fall
@jkhaira4042
Жыл бұрын
thats not the engine
@UnleashTheBlob
8 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most depressingly beautiful thins I've ever seen.
@Nine-Signs
4 жыл бұрын
Full of educational fats.
@cmkosemen
4 жыл бұрын
Like Wheat Thins ?
@sergeigarbar1948
4 жыл бұрын
You should watch Tarkovskij. Solaris.
@firstman9273
4 жыл бұрын
Watch the whole movie on the big screen.
@sluffnut7507
4 жыл бұрын
Yea but have you heard of oreo thins
@moscanaveia
2 жыл бұрын
I watched this movie when I was a teenager. A teenager with undiagnosed ADHD, who was also a gay boy in the closet, and with a really hard time building meaningful connections with people my age. It is baffling to me how this film managed to keep me watching from begining to end. But what I remember most is how this scene made me cry so much when watching it. And coming back to it, after not having watched it for well over a decade, I cry again and am amazed by how much my view of the world was informed, partly, by the unspoken narrative of the bafflingly beautiful imagery and the hauntingly profound music in this film.
@carlosantuckwell
5 жыл бұрын
You can't tell from that short ending (the film was about 2 hours long), but that was the most powerful environmental movie ever made. No dialogue, no main characters, no actors, just mostly sped-up (some slowed-down from memory) time-lapse scenes starting with the natural world and moving into ever-more urban scenes. Those urban scenes made us look just like scurrying ants, and the kind of ants that destroy all vegetation in their area.
@moscanaveia
2 жыл бұрын
I have a recommendation for you. Happiness, by Steve Cutts. Ants are not exactly the metaphor I would use to describe the height of human industry and ingenuity
@koalaeinstein-y7r
Жыл бұрын
Humanity won't reach 2080
@thaDjMauz
10 ай бұрын
@@koalaeinstein-y7rbut some humans might...
@siugbait
7 жыл бұрын
i remember catching this movie on television one day as a kid staying home from school with an awful fever. it's not too dramatic to say it was like a religious experience
@joeribaeck9932
7 жыл бұрын
siugbait You learned more that day, then that entire year in school
@johnvincent1823
5 жыл бұрын
I saw this when I was like 8 and it scared the living fuck out of me
@bothersomebertie1195
4 жыл бұрын
"wtf are we doing"
@TheNefastor
4 жыл бұрын
@@joeribaeck9932 must have been an American school, then.
@Nine-Signs
4 жыл бұрын
I'd have the DVD ready as you will be able to relive the experience shortly.
@sohrain
5 жыл бұрын
This movie is the realest horror I've ever seen. I've been through the goriest films, and... This one, with no harming images, no gore, disturbs me and haunts me as hell.
@connor828
3 жыл бұрын
It's quite possibly the ultimate existential horror.
@piergiorgio919
3 жыл бұрын
I think this movie involuntarily exalts humanity, the shots of the cities at night are just beautiful
@viceroybolt3518
2 жыл бұрын
@@piergiorgio919 What it has to say can't be said without saying that what we built IS beautiful.
@Fraude_fiscale4
2 жыл бұрын
"oh noo im so scared of modern society and shit"
@kormannn1
Жыл бұрын
@@Fraude_fiscale4 you should be. Modern society has its horrific downsides that can drive you out of your craziness into other one, even scarier, if you are not careful
@suttree3233
4 жыл бұрын
There is something at once terrible and beautiful about this ending. Watching the collective dreams of the human enterprise near satisfaction and then burst into flames and hurtle back towards earth. Like some mad hominoid fantasy that got out of hand and had to be put in its place.
@22over7aintpi
2 жыл бұрын
In case you were wondering there are two rockets featured in this sequence. The first is a Saturn V on the launch pad, the second is the first Atlas-Centaur Missile launched on May 8, 1962. No one was hurt in that explosion and clues to why it exploded are a flapping liquid nitrogen line by the vernier engine and the venting liquid hydrogen some seconds into flight.
@moscanaveia
2 жыл бұрын
@@22over7aintpi Way to kill the mood. Take in the significance, not the technical explanation. We live in an era after the Challenger explosion. We touched the stars. Where has that got us? To a never-ending crisis, a crisis of the self, where we are entrapped by the technologies we made to make our lives more comfortable or connected. A crisis of the collective, where people care nothing for the woes of others, and fight over petty shit. And a crisis of existence, where the height of human industry and ingenuity has produced horrible inequality, misery and a climate crisis that will be the doom of us all. We were promised the stars. We were given death, famine, disease and hatred. It even empties the atavic wonder we have for the skies with dreams of plucking its stars to line our own pockets.
@kds5895
2 жыл бұрын
@@moscanaveia Jesus christ all he did was clarify which rocket this was. You sound insufferable. Get over yourself
@thelosttraveler5808
2 жыл бұрын
@@moscanaveia Touching the stars have nothing to do with this, actually touching the stars gave us a better appreciation for nature. Undestanding how small we are, sure we have many problems to solve still, and we will always. Or maybe not if we go extinct before, but that's part of the game. Humanity will always be destined to search for truth, with ingenuity and curiosity into the unknown of knowledge. This is just a small stepping stone.
@philjohn1960
9 жыл бұрын
I showed this film in class yesterday. I just love this ending. i'll be watching the dvd and my wife will say, 'are you watching that movie again?' then I have to turn the volume down. so elegiac and beautiful.
@marcobeltran2872
8 жыл бұрын
I watched this film at the age of 10, and I lost all hope in humanity. It did make me more aware of human nature, but this movie is disturbing to say the least, but it is perfect to show to everyone, because everyone needs to wake up and realize that Koyanisqatsi it our reality.
@holysh33pshit
7 жыл бұрын
i have owned this since it came out , it taught me to be an independent thinker , and question authority so the word NASA definition 1 to lift up 2 to deceive. nasa=satanasa=female devil is that a red snake tongue on the logo of nasa . gravity or i should say , the THEORY of gravity since it is STILL a THEORY . sea LEVEL not sea curve , HORIZON not curvizon the horizontal eye zone, the horizon enters your eye zone. the UN flag is a flat earth map ,why? remember that scene THE GRAND ILLUSION think hard about all of this please and remember to follow the money . how much have they got from us taxpayers since they started and what have we got besides tortured animals to the death and CGI cartoons including THE INTERNATIONAL FAKE SPACE STAGE . Maybe you should show this comment in class and find out what your students can dig up with ,follow the money detective work. keep the peace teach .... i love all you kids, dont fall victim to deception. and do your own experiments.
@crankbrankle5107
7 жыл бұрын
If this poor commenter showed your garbage fire of an essay to his class, the students, their parents, and his superiors would all be mutually appalled. Your links between points are somewhere between schizophrenic and evangelical cult-like in logic, and your understanding of the words you have been fooled into believing are dead giveaways of a sphere earth conspiracy is vastly below that of any third grader who can multiply two numbers together. Do you know where the money for NASA goes? The money given to NASA goes to science that allows the USA to develop better weapons and better economic opportunities so that the USA can get a leg up on their rivals. The only thing that you've said that I can agree with is the advice to do your own experiments, but I can't even fully agree with you on that point because under your supervision, the math and rational habits that you would instill in these children would leave them too painfully stupid to pursue engaging and well paying careers instead of living lives of intermittent homelessness and odd - job lifestyles which cannot support rent anywhere, let alone artistic or creative pursuits and social hobbies with mentally healthy individuals. I know more people like you than I am comfortable admitting, and this is the reality for their kids if they can't find someone sane to anchor themselves to. I hope you can appreciate how formless and ugly my response's structure is, after all, I modeled it after your word salad that you just served to every remotely functional individual who will laugh at you for it as they pass through these comments.
@holysh33pshit
7 жыл бұрын
Crank Brankle and satan deceived the whole world
@holysh33pshit
7 жыл бұрын
Crank Brankle you obviously support the cult of NASA , how much money do they give you?
@galaxyman2007dtl
5 жыл бұрын
GIVEN THE CURRENT WORLD SITUATION...THIS FILM SHOULD BE RE-RELEASED IN EVERY CINEMA...
@jaswati
4 жыл бұрын
Now more than ever.
@EnvisionerWill
4 жыл бұрын
@@jaswati If it was released in theaters today nobody would be allowed to go see it....
@galaxyman2007dtl
4 жыл бұрын
@BADSPOCK Human failure is inevitable...
@randydelabarcena4988
4 жыл бұрын
Now what do you think? “GALAXYMAN” 6/26/2020 13yrs past !
@jobob47
4 жыл бұрын
mandatory viewing.
@Nine-Signs
4 жыл бұрын
Koyaanisqatsi = Life out of balance. It sure is now.
@thebammer5166
4 жыл бұрын
Totally true! I couldn't agree more.
@venator5890
4 жыл бұрын
It has always been true.
@Nine-Signs
4 жыл бұрын
@@venator5890 Actually it hasn't, the making of the film was timely if coincidental, as it was around that time that capitalism blew past sustainable planetary limits. Today due to incentivised perpetual economic and biological growth we now take in excess of 30 billion tonnes more resources than the 50 billion the planet can sustain indefinitely without permanent ecological damage. And due to the doubling demanded by capitalism over 30 year periods, done so to stave of its collapse by giving "return on investment" at a globalized 3% long term average, we will be taking close to 150 billion tonnes of materials by 2050. We were not always out of balance, but we have been incentivized to be so by a globalised economic belief system in complete defiance of the immutable physics governing a finite world. Native peoples have often written of first worlders as knowing of the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
@venator5890
4 жыл бұрын
@@Nine-Signs Bud, capitalism apart, life is chaos since its starts, it's not about capitalism and economic belief system. I got your point, but mine is more about intrinsic life mechanics of unpredictability and state of inner disorder of fact, at all levels and on all planes of existence.
@Nine-Signs
4 жыл бұрын
@@venator5890 Well on that I would say the existence of anything is chaotic be it from an atom to the largest black hole and entropy over time eventually claims all to bring existence to a final state of nothingness which is perfectly natural. But to my mind and my general point, I see no reason why a species as clever as we are would intentionally shorten our own existence within that window of everything. We are terribly clever, but not very wise.
@harmlesscreationsofthegree1248
4 жыл бұрын
One of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music. The visuals make it heartbreaking. An amazing film indeed
@polarnadir2368
6 жыл бұрын
I watched this documentary over 30 years ago... the end! Oh, my.. still impresses me ... goosebumps, philosophical thoughts of life, our place in the universe, progress, humanity, greed, love, war, and all that jazz that we come to experience in this so tiny path we call life. We come, we go, others will and have... Koyaanisqatsi remains.
@DemPilafian
2 жыл бұрын
Documentary? Just because the footage is real, does not mean the movie is a documentary. The launch was of a Saturn V while the explosion was an Atlas missile. The footage was edited to make it look like the same rocket. That's make-believe storytelling not a documentary.
@davidmurphy8364
9 жыл бұрын
Just watched Interstellar and the music just reminded me so much of this piece and this scene. I just think it's pretty cool how one made it off the earth and one didn't
@niamor314
8 жыл бұрын
Hans Zimmer was inspired by Philip Glass when he wrote the music of Interstellar.
@_demitri
7 жыл бұрын
Hans Zimmer ripped off the soundtrack by Philip Glass when he wrote the music of Interstellar.
@vnloya
7 жыл бұрын
Same here. Happy (and surprising) to know that I was not the only one who recall this...
@binaryum
7 жыл бұрын
демитри николаи йочансон fuck you piece of shit
@holysh33pshit
7 жыл бұрын
Fake Name Fake Space
@FearMonarch
4 жыл бұрын
so i downloaded a really weird torrent copy of this and the entire movie is backwards never seeing it before and knowing its weird film with no spoken words, i thought that was just the charm of it. it starts with the opening fade out of the cave painting until it fades out into the remains of the shuttle spinning. not knowing what i was watching, i was memorized as this unknown object that looked like a goblet or torch falling through the air spun until as it started to piece together. i also pieced what i was seeing together as the fireball reverses into the rocket. i watched the whole thing, backwards, just astonished and amazed at everything i watched, thinking that the only flaw on this masterpiece was how it started so amazing and never topped that finding out it was the ending made a lot of sense, but it robs the entire experience of this bizarre visual that i know was never intended to be seen like that, and thats what i think really defines how special and unique this movie is, that you can watch it completely reversed and get an entirely different perspective on it and not even realize that the movie wasnt intended to be watched like that
@philrichardson8974
3 жыл бұрын
I saw it that way cause it is posted on KZitem like that 😒 spoiled the ending
@tedsmith6137
3 жыл бұрын
That 'goblet or torch' was the bottom of the Atlas rocket body with the central motor attached and both outer booster motors and skirt missing.
@FearMonarch
3 жыл бұрын
@@tedsmith6137 i realized that eventually (i did need to research what the actually rocket was) but it was just so interesting and bizarre to see it really sucked me in
@ТимофейАристархов-ж1щ
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine how it feels to be a cameraman catching this falling detail of a rocket after great and unexpected explosion all the way down to the ground. Just imagine how cathartic it could be
@thomasoring
4 жыл бұрын
Why cathartic?
@hot2warm
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload! One of the most haunting sequences that I can recall in any movie I have watched.
@EmergentPhenomenom
9 жыл бұрын
I can't hear this music without getting the most horrible chills
@marcobeltran2872
8 жыл бұрын
+John Roscoe yea bro, I watched this movie when I was like 10, and it fucked me up for good. I lost all my hope of humanity then, and as time passes, its just reinforcing that feeling.
@Guadeloop
8 жыл бұрын
+hot2warm I remember I had quite some trouble sleeping after watching that movie. It's very scary in a very different way, it's not the kind of feeling you get in an horror film, it's worse.
@KatherineUribe-1
8 жыл бұрын
+LuPe Yes, because it's not fictional in any way. It's the bare, naked, horrifying truth.
@canniballecter2000
8 жыл бұрын
+hot2warm Hairs. Standing. On. End.
@MoKhera
Жыл бұрын
Scott Manley brought back the memory and I have to say thank you. This is a magnificent piece with thought provoking ideas on humanity's future.
@MillennialMonk
2 жыл бұрын
The ending scene gets me every time. It's so chilling to think about those early humans. They probably couldn't have imagined the things we have today. Also that art has stood the test of time yet nearly all the amazing complex stuff we've made could be brought down easily. The message to me is that despite thinking we've finally advanced we still stand on a delicate platform of technology. Take away the platform and we in a way are still the same people as our early ancestors. This is scary yet peaceful to me.
@Voland1871
3 ай бұрын
Humanity can build anything, guns, tanks, bombs, highways, great cities, massive tombs. We can build so much, but yet, we are often forced to watch the Universe’s unending ability to destroy.
@TheImmortalSorrow
8 жыл бұрын
This is the real horror. More horrifying than ghost, monster, or murderer.
@ChristmasCrustacean1
7 жыл бұрын
we will never get off this rock
@holysh33pshit
7 жыл бұрын
not that way anyway , nasa liars all space is fake
@smartalek180
7 жыл бұрын
"we will never get off this rock" Of course we will. At any given point, whatever the situation is, seems as if it will always be that way. But there has been progress, and there will be again. We are still in our infancy; we WILL grow up. Some day.
@smartalek180
7 жыл бұрын
"nasa liars all space is fake" You are a remarkably stupid person.
@holysh33pshit
7 жыл бұрын
smartalek180 don't tell me you live on planet CGI with 1969 cellular technology that can reach fantastic distances. Maybe you should take advice from the meaning of the word of the movie you just watched and become an independent thinker. question everything
@Arda.D
5 жыл бұрын
This kind of documentary is what kids needed to be shown in school
@zstepohznrebrenhoirer7
11 ай бұрын
I tear up every single time.
@devilgene7330
2 жыл бұрын
Beginning to feel a bit scarier with that war showing up…
@marcolforoso4001
5 ай бұрын
Great part of this movie exists, as a short silent documentary, ten years before, I am italian, in my country at that time color tv did not exists, I was in Switzerland at the time for some days, as a child I was mesmerized by their color TV programs, and I saw the "prototype" of this movie, work of same authors I Think, and/or, there is a mention of it, in the final credits of the movie
@c0mpu73rguy
9 жыл бұрын
I just discovered this movie. And this ending was terrifying. I didn't saw it coming. Indeed this music sounds a lot like Interstellar. They analysed its music in the TV news and that's what made me discover this trilogy. But by God, this ending!
@Darkside13190
9 жыл бұрын
simpsonofan I was so shocked that I was dumb, tears from both eyes ...
@smartalek180
7 жыл бұрын
Nobody died in this incident; that was an unmanned launch. If that makes you feel any better.
@c0mpu73rguy
5 жыл бұрын
smartalek180 It does. Thank you (answering one year later because KZitem never notified me and I wanted to see that ending again).
@bentleyscarton5377
4 жыл бұрын
San andreas introduced a lot of people to pruit igoe which led them to koyaanisqatsi many roads to get here
@c0mpu73rguy
4 жыл бұрын
Bent Ley Did you meant GTA IV?
@novakattila
4 жыл бұрын
This movie is really worth it just because of the music of Glass
@analienfromouterspace
5 жыл бұрын
There is no progress without errors.
@nevoobrazimiy
4 жыл бұрын
All the progress - because of errors ever get with DNA replication
@machintelligence
4 жыл бұрын
Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)
@rockomax2732
4 жыл бұрын
Lol this transitioned from a Saturn V to a Atlas A rocket
@TheKingDrew
3 жыл бұрын
Never once have heard this movie but to me this seems like a masterpiece, the rocket, Both a symbol of destruction and peace I don’t want to survive a war if we lose it, the thought of the loss of freedom and the fact that people don’t have it is horrible, people automatically think that if you don’t agree your their enemy While we are on the verge of all out war all times,
@theyweredeadwhenigotthere1391
3 жыл бұрын
It's a very thought provoking film to say the least
@DemPilafian
2 жыл бұрын
The rocket? Singular? The launch footage was of a Saturn V while the explosion footage was of an Atlas missile. The footage was edited to make it look like it was all the same rocket.
@safasaleh3010
3 жыл бұрын
A devastating masterpiece
@MannikinFreezTag
8 ай бұрын
1:09 begins the haunting denouement, which follows the object into space while the chant that began the movie returns. The message is that the faster we go, the farther we get from where we need to be. Gets me every time.
@asachildtobecome
9 жыл бұрын
The theme of doom is so prevalent in our history that in a way, I feel it is a shared certainty of our our personal and ultimate death.
@ShutterSnapped
9 жыл бұрын
+asachildtobecome It's one of my favourite scenes to ever come out of film. It's incredibly poignant and sad. But I hope, if to take anything from it, it is a warning rather than prophecy.
@galaxyman2007dtl
5 жыл бұрын
Note how the debris looks like a human form...a perfect symbol of our POSSIBLE failure as a species...BUT...the game is not over...yet time is short now...
@dutchflats
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, everything and everyone dies eventually even the universe. It's how well you live with the time that's given to you that matters!
@TSFboi
4 жыл бұрын
I feel like obsessing over doom will only bring you closer to it.
@clayz1
4 жыл бұрын
That was amazing. What ever it was.
@nikoscuatro7251
4 жыл бұрын
the deep of this end, and the whole movie, is because you are watching and your subconcience is catching the inevitable of the disaster, and your heart get the alert that we are going to the catastrophe.
@lullsbaby9321
3 жыл бұрын
Watched the hell out of this when I was 12-14... Now Im 31.. And there's never been a movie, that's made me this emotional... Without telling me how to feel. Its just music. A rocket explosion. Debris falling. HOW?!?!
@tedsmith6137
5 жыл бұрын
So we start with a Saturn 5 then, at 1:08 it turns into an Atlas. Also the footage of the 5 Saturn F5 engines, at 0:16, is not a Saturn launch but a Saturn static firing as there is no insulation encasing the motors.
@francis6489
4 жыл бұрын
Watch the movie and you'll realize how much of a nit-picking idiot you are.
@sebastian3217
4 жыл бұрын
@@francis6489 What is your problem... Has it not occurred to you that some people are actually interested in rockets and space exploration? Or do you just call everyone that is more knowledgeable than you a "nit-picking idiot"?
@762radron
3 жыл бұрын
Christa McAuliffe was on the space shuttle that exploded. I worked with her nephew. I saw this film some time after the Shuttle disaster. Significant to me because the last time I saw my mother alive was the night before the shuttle blew up.
@theyweredeadwhenigotthere1391
3 жыл бұрын
This isn't the 1986 challenger...
@762radron
3 жыл бұрын
@@theyweredeadwhenigotthere1391 I don't care. I merely explained my story. R U looking for a fight? Go elsewhere.
@theyweredeadwhenigotthere1391
3 жыл бұрын
@@762radron im correcting ignorance have a problem with it? Maybe it's time for an ego check..
@sonofpears4691
Жыл бұрын
I watched this in my media class in film and at the start I was against the idea of a film with zero plot whatsover but I found the film extremely interesting and captivating. I honestly think that this film should be sent to aliens as this film is one of the most perfect encapsulations of all of human existence
@RickB500
3 жыл бұрын
I've seen the German premiere with Reggio and Glass ;-) The day before was a concert of and with Glass.
@christianromero6815
4 жыл бұрын
By watching this video I realized that my suspicions were indeed true. The film is uploaded to KZitem, but played backwards, I suppose due to copyright. Well, I've seen the whole movie backwards because I thought it was originally made that way. The truth is that the emotional impact and some explosion scenes are even better
@jhn550
11 ай бұрын
This falling engine is like a flying packet from the movie 'American beauty'. Absolutely stunning.
@georgiegogo8493
9 жыл бұрын
I watched interstellar and all it did was make me want to watch this.
@mmishra5740
6 жыл бұрын
georgie gogo poltics
@emmanueloverrated
6 жыл бұрын
haha! Interstellar shares several symbols with Koyaanisqatsi. Both movies are about the failure of the technological civilisation. Interstellar is even more cynic about it. All people thinking that movies was about the urge to find another home are getting all wrong.
@judahusmc
6 жыл бұрын
If you think Interstellar is cynical, I don't think you understand Christopher Nolan.
@stadjestem
5 жыл бұрын
I second this, main theme and some epic visual scenes from Interstellar very much recall Koyanisquatsi opening/closing themes.
@ShorelineThomas
5 жыл бұрын
Very good point, did not notice before. And organ music also ties the two movies together...
@АнтонСтрижак-я8с
2 жыл бұрын
Astonishing. And this anthropomorphic shape of this engine.
@brunomarques2593
4 жыл бұрын
Perfeito som pra 2020!
@OldMcHorny
7 жыл бұрын
i love how the music is changing as soon as the rocket starts falling at 2:10
@brownieeee7003
3 жыл бұрын
It’s so beautiful, yet so sad at the same time. The feeling really sets in.
@EnvisionerWill
4 жыл бұрын
Everyone in the world should watch (and listen to) this poetic masterpiece at least once in their life. The whole film is beautiful as well, but it drags a bit in places, so I don't blame anyone who doesn't sit through the entire thing; this one clip is the absolute core of the experience, and nobody has an excuse for not discovering it.
@johnm2576
4 жыл бұрын
But this scene is a payoff for all of the bits that drag. This scene caps it all and leaves you emotionally full/emptied.
@EnvisionerWill
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnm2576 We are in total agreement. All I'm saying is that a lot of people probably left the theater before the payoff arrived, and that's sad.
@Wayoutthere
4 жыл бұрын
Totally mesmerizing..
@khalidibrahim7726
5 жыл бұрын
Wait I remember watchman movie that marvelous and Koyaaniqtsi 1982 by Godfrey Reggio is perfect.
@MichałNorek
7 ай бұрын
My Beloved Brother, You my tautological Myself, Thomeo, as in this time and that realm we've got met each other and recognized each other -- that's for You/Me.
@EdiaAltesUniversal
6 жыл бұрын
Un gran trabajo ! Gracias.
@f0cks
8 жыл бұрын
I love this film and I find it amazing that the photographer managed to keep his/her camera on this the entire time. Throughout the horror of that situation, s/he didn't forget his/her job; s/he didn't forget how necessary to history this footage would be. I find that remarkable and I don't think people recognize this often enough.
@f0cks
8 жыл бұрын
Hi! I found your question interesting. So I had a look around. So, the video is two separate rocket sequences. The first is a Saturn V, manned. The video is made to imply / look like a single sequence, but it isn't, as this rocket in the 1st sequence is the one which made the first moon landing. The rocket shown in the explosion was an unmanned Altlas-Centaur in a test launch. When this film was made, no astronauts had yet been killed by a spacecraft exploding in e.g. the fashion of Challenger. So thanks for the question. This is something I should know (it's my field, kinda, and also a huge interest of mine) and it was nice to have a good excuse to dig deeper. So, I stand corrected! I don't know if the film was intended to imply that humans had been killed by the rocket or not. I think if it was, it certainly adds more power to the message of the film. But either way, an incredible scene for sure. At least in my opinion.
@wYeL333
8 жыл бұрын
+Samantha Stever I always saw the Atlas-Centaur explosion in this film to be tragic on a larger scale, regardless of whether it was manned or not -- it shows the futility of civilization. Sure, we may THINK we've conquered the air, but everything we've built is unstable and flimsy (hence life out of balance), and the footage of the burning debris falling back down to Earth is the future of civilization as it is. At least that's what that scene communicated to me. Not saying you're wrong; this film is deliberately left to interpretation. Hope none of this came off pretentious.
@jam99
8 жыл бұрын
+Yuriy Lehki Don't speak for me. I think we have conquered very little so far. What we have done is primitive. We can't even control our own population size!! How basic is that for a civilised society? We have not touched evolution.
@vasilstanev4234
7 жыл бұрын
The [Men yelling indistinctly] quote on Your twitter made my day :))))) *tips hat*
@maria510flores
7 жыл бұрын
Samantha Stever k
@HiVizCamo
5 жыл бұрын
I prefer to make a pro-human interpretation of the messages in this film. We'll figure it out, we'll be alright in the long run. We're pretty awesome.
@5Cats
4 жыл бұрын
That is refreshing! I agree! We can make these miracles, even if they fail? We'll keep reaching for the stars. We've done that since we were tiny frightened creatures hiding in trees at night looking up at the moon... The Earth doesn't care about us, but we care.
@HiVizCamo
4 жыл бұрын
@Jacob Zondag In doing my own reading on this (new to me) term, I'd suggest you have found a biased interpretation of scientific research, research that is beyond me and probably you as well. Seems the term is being used (abused) in lay applications - by people similarly ignorant - to drive certain political and other agendas. A seemingly brainy and convincing way of accusing people with divergent views of ignorance or stupidity or cognitive dissonance. We could go on.
@HiVizCamo
4 жыл бұрын
@Jacob Zondag No. While this is a beautiful and memorable film, it is after all an emotional conjecture. A story, just like all documentary film. It is not science, and should not be abused by anyone to replace science. It is not partisan and should not be abused by anyone to drive an agenda. It's a common and growing problem now, to see this happening. This is a piece of art; as always, art is subject to the interpretation of the observer. While I am able to guess the maker's message bias, I think it's a mistake to let anyone abuse art by forcing interpretations onto other people. Sorry to presume, but in case you're passively angling around for unsolicited life coaching, be careful what you consume; written word, spoken word or video image. Be aware of the potential uses or misuses of information of all kinds, news or art or other. Who is saying what, and to whom, and for what purpose? In summary, this is an amazing piece of art, and remains something not all that many people know about despite wide availability, despite the absurdity of civilization. Cheer up, a nice walk in a forest always does it for me ;D
@tedsmith6137
3 жыл бұрын
So you launch a Saturn 5 and at 1:08 it turns into an Atlas, which , naturally, explodes.
@Arvy1987
2 ай бұрын
This is our world
@weekiely1233
Ай бұрын
Yes. That’s the point of the film It’s not supposed to be bad or good. Or about society It’s about technology. Its drawbacks and benefits
@alessandropicchi5069
2 жыл бұрын
Poesia pura
@Ternuj
4 жыл бұрын
There is no progress, there is no truth, no objectivity. Trying to achieve those results in state of Koyaanisqatsi. There is nothing to achieve. Just live.
@landonmiller6943
4 жыл бұрын
What absolute drivel.
@eyelauncher
3 жыл бұрын
The time has come. It has begun. Purification for all things.
@HellishSpoon
7 ай бұрын
Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned.
@weekiely1233
7 ай бұрын
“The lesson is Icarus is not to not fly close to the sun it’s to build better fucking wings”
@HellishSpoon
6 ай бұрын
@@weekiely1233 truest
@mountainman4987
6 жыл бұрын
I can picture a lil old lady on a church organ playing this in front of a congregation after having her morning coffee spiked with LSD!
@jaycal1920
4 жыл бұрын
This movie/documentary or whatever it is, is one of three. Baraka Samsara And Koyaanisqutsi
@modshroom
4 жыл бұрын
baraka sucks
@thetwitterlectual9528
3 жыл бұрын
This is THE definition of a cult film.
@moodydude565
6 жыл бұрын
Koyaanisqatsi: the harder you try the more the fail
@sohrain
5 жыл бұрын
And this ending is petrifying. The camera doesn't even move at the time of the explosion.
@nicolassorin561
3 ай бұрын
Este final me pone como loquita
@tomm1109
5 ай бұрын
The premise is that we shouldn't try and I completely disagree. But at the same time, this is the most beautiful thing I've ever disagreed with.
@bengordon2373
3 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece!!!
@panlomito
4 жыл бұрын
Nice music to play on a oversized cathedral organ with 32 feet pipes and sing along after a night with too many whiskey shots... No fear for the "end of the earth", at most fear for a persistent hangover.
@patrickwolff2727
6 жыл бұрын
Somber music that makes a person introspective about their existence. . . . Well, I’m off to listen to “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley. Bye!
@ssasw1480
4 жыл бұрын
txs Philipp Glass....txs corona!
@FoxRedmiNote
2 жыл бұрын
Замечательно 👍
@JerryAllen1919
3 жыл бұрын
I was lucky to find Koyaanisqatsi on DVD at a thrift store for $5.00.
@thrashmusician035
2 жыл бұрын
Any kids from AGS here?
@djcorvette8375
3 жыл бұрын
adam curtis' new 2021 documentary starts with a very similar shot
@arewealive3736
9 ай бұрын
The futility of our attempts to conquer the plane we inhabit.
@Izu_san
20 күн бұрын
Start from here 02:18 i like the melody
@bluetastic405
3 жыл бұрын
I cross the room to the Intrinsic Field Center. I find my watch. When I get to the door, Wally is turning white. I am terrified. It is May 12th, 1959, when I’m introduced to Janey. She buys me a beer, the first time a woman has done this for me. As she passes me the cold, perspiring glass, our fingers touch. I feel fear for the last time. A token funeral is held. There is nothing to bury. Janey frames the snapshot. It’s the only photograph of me anyone has.
@scitsalcoryp
3 жыл бұрын
Only thing that matters now .. is that you get the right earbud in the right ear and the left one in the left ...
@StormadoMan
4 жыл бұрын
For some reason.. I fancy a game of Delta after watching this......
@bretdouglas9407
3 жыл бұрын
I believe the camera was on a tracking rig, they need to document the event for analysis. Also this was an unmanned test Saturn 5
@СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь
6 жыл бұрын
Whole film and especially this mindblowing scene are one of pinnacles, mankind have ever created. Goosebumps everytime, I am watching this scene. And yeah, fuck cheap copycats as Interstellar and Zimmer!
@toddhoward5555
6 жыл бұрын
The thing with this scene is that it only makes more sense with age. A jet engine still attempting to fire up even when there's no avoiding the inevitable downward spiral to oblivion. It's an equally sad and sobering state.
@dnzo9899
5 жыл бұрын
" Humanity " : the film
@Léopart_le_jaguar
3 жыл бұрын
The origin of Interstellar
@MarkWhiteford-Photography
4 жыл бұрын
In reverse in the cycle 2020
@scubasteve9396
4 жыл бұрын
The folly of man.
@florianroquin8146
5 жыл бұрын
Émouvant chez d'œuvre
@gevo5938
6 жыл бұрын
i love this
@SamSpade2010
5 жыл бұрын
There's still plenty of wilderness these people could move to.
@Nickel_The_Wise
3 жыл бұрын
We are all furiously disturbed and haunted.. because we are a perfect creature.
@Tupakkirulla
3 жыл бұрын
I suppose the container of ashes would be a nuclear weapon, this film was made in the time of the cold war
@jacobrael9872
3 жыл бұрын
I thought also a meteor or solar flare
@dannygjk
4 жыл бұрын
I have a priestess in Priston Tale named, Koyaanisqatsi. ;)
@tous7798
Жыл бұрын
Passage cultissime. Explosion de Mercury Atlas 1 en 1960.
@kimfucku8074
5 жыл бұрын
A rapid, unplanned and uncontrolled disasembly
@adamndirtyape
5 жыл бұрын
There's a reason they chose the last shot of the rocket launch that blows up. It is the analogy for our civilization, which seems to be progressing forward, seemingly unstoppable and powered by incredible technology, until one thing too many goes wrong, a key part fails, or an overlooked factor kicks in, and then it falls apart, not gradually, but all at once because everything in the rocket is interlinked. When the failure comes, there will be no magical fix or emergency procedure that will stop the disaster that is unfolding. This is what climate change will do to us. One day, something crucial will change, one last thing added to all the other things before it that we ignored, and the collapse will happen and it will be almost impossible to fix. Right now, almost half the species on Earth that existed just 30 or 40 years ago have gone extinct. There is also currently a world-wide collapse of insect populations happening that is totally freaking out scientists or anyone who knows what that represents - insects as the starting point of major food chains, including much of humanity's, who rely on insects pollinating much of our food crops. Or we could have one war too many. There are nuclear weapons in their thousands on the Earth. Even a limited nuclear exchange of a dozen or so weapons will quite effectively end our civilization, and yet nations are as belligerent as ever, and the major ones like Russia, America and China are led by egotistical psychopaths like Putin, Trump and Xi Jinping. There are other threats that could cause collapse, like too much pollution, like chemicals, heavy metals, nuclear waste, pesticides and plastics getting into our food and water supplies, pr out-of-control AI, or perhaps diseases that might turn into plagues because we've overused anti-biotics. etc. Of course, we could despair, or we could take things like this film as the warning it was intended to be and try to fight back against those who still think the destructive old ways cannot change. It's not too late, but first, we need to finally wake up and acknowledge that the danger is real.
@fridayray8891
3 жыл бұрын
ula should watch this....and learn
@zirioz
5 жыл бұрын
I feel that Hans Zimmer heavily borrowed from Philip Glass in conceiving Interstellar’s sound track. Especially this scene.
@hussamalkaissi4453
4 жыл бұрын
same thought when I saw it! the organ, the simple tune, the melancholic vibe
@LukDerVog
4 жыл бұрын
but the ting is... it kinda works! I couldn't help but notice the similarities but Interstellar is about mankind ruining earth to the point of no return so we'll have to look for another planet to survive. So, given the music, Interstellar actually proves to be kind of a story driven sequel to this film... doesn't change the fact that Zimmer said he came up with the score on his own, sadly...
@Baugliir
4 жыл бұрын
@@LukDerVog Yeah, in fact, in 2012 Nolan originally just asked Zimmer to compose some themes in one day around the idea of a father-daughter relationship and the first main organ/piano piece of 4 minutes asserted the feeling of what it meant to be a father for Zimmer.
@MaQuGo119
4 жыл бұрын
water is wet.
@prunusserrulata6303
4 жыл бұрын
@Mr. Flapjack Presents Indeed, even that stupid robot in the Interstellar is shaped like the monolith
@22over7aintpi
2 жыл бұрын
In case you were wondering there are two rockets featured in this sequence. The first is a Saturn V on the launch pad, the second is the first Atlas-Centaur Missile launched on May 8, 1962. No one was hurt in that explosion and clues to why it exploded are a flapping liquid nitrogen line by the vernier engine and the venting liquid hydrogen some seconds into flight. The failure was determined to be caused by an insulation panel that ripped off the Centaur during ascent, resulting in a surge in tank pressure when the LH2 overheated. Beginning at T+44 seconds, the pneumatic system responded by venting propellant to reduce pressure levels, but eventually, they exceeded the LH2 tank's structural strength. At T+54 seconds, the Centaur experienced total structural breakup and loss of telemetry, the LOX tank rupturing and producing an explosion as it mixed with the hydrogen cloud. Two seconds later, flying debris ruptured the Atlas's LOX tank followed by complete destruction of the launch vehicle. The panel had been meant to jettison at 49 miles (80 km) up when the air was thinner, but the mechanism holding it in place was designed inadequately, leading to premature separation. The insulation panels had already been suspected during Centaur development of being a potential problem area, and the possibility of an LH2 tank rupture was considered as a failure scenario. Testing was suspended while efforts were made to correct the Centaur's design flaws.
@rokuronzoni6274
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this
@nightcannotbesosky
Жыл бұрын
"total structural breakup" that's an excellent synopsis of the movie
@MrTubular13
Жыл бұрын
So....Neil....what did you think of the music?
@22over7aintpi
Жыл бұрын
@@MrTubular13 Incredible. The perfect marriage of sound and vision. Thank you for asking.
@Ashfaq1999
Ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing the information 😊
@missselfdestruct9651
3 жыл бұрын
i have to agree with a lot of comments on here. no standard horror movie has ever scared me. nothing supernatural, no serial killer stories, no gore, no creepy dolls, no clowns whatsoever. if anything, movies like these bore me, with how dull and predictable they are. but this one right here. this is horror. this scares the ever loving hell out if me. this is existential dread. this is art. this shakes me to my very core. barely anything or anyone can do that. what a gem. what a terrifying gem.
@biorythmic
2 ай бұрын
It's indeed something else. Philip Glass' accompanying work takes great part in it, too.
@danieldolniczky2454
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome back. You know there is something special about this considering you look up this video once in a while.
@beanbagchair
5 ай бұрын
True
@colonelgraff9198
20 күн бұрын
Bruh
@DrHotelMario
4 жыл бұрын
I feel like Koyaanisqatsi is probably the best depiction of Humanity's epitaph we have at the moment. This ending is a cry for help. To God, to any other intelligence out there, to our future selves, and to anyone who can listen. This is our scream into the abyss, hoping that there's a way to survive this and that it hasn't all been for nothing. If Fermi is right and the great barrier exists, who knows how many other countless civilizations felt this exact feeling of existential fear. To bring all these feelings out with no more than footage and music is amazing to me. Transcendent film. A true piece of art.
@hewasdeadwhenigotthere7109
4 жыл бұрын
Couldnt agree more friend.
@jagdpanther6327
4 жыл бұрын
Eloquently put
@DrHotelMario
4 жыл бұрын
@Moustachehilarity This is Koyaanisqatsi ffs, if it were a Marvel movie, or some Oscar b8, then sure I could understand that, but Koyaanisqatsi is pretty much the definition of subjective art. I mean THERE IS LITERALLY NO DIALOGUE IN THE FILM lol did you just sit there and watch it and have no lingering thoughts about it's message? Seriously, absolutely WRONG film to call analysis of it pretentious. It was made for this kind of discussion.
@DrHotelMario
4 жыл бұрын
@Moustachehilarity Cool, what's your interpretation then?
@DrHotelMario
4 жыл бұрын
@Moustachehilarity Yup
@zolarczakl3880
4 жыл бұрын
This chillingly tragic ending aside, this entire movie is wonderful in that there is no dialogue, so nothing to distract you from your own thoughts and meditation on your own relation to our collective place on this orb as a species and our affect to this orb. Add to that the mesmerizing music. I was pleased to be able to watch this movie on a giant screen with the Philip Glass Ensemble playing to it live. I don't recall if the choral singers were present, but the ensemble surely played the score flawlessly.
@dingdong1519
4 жыл бұрын
Wow I didn't know they showed movies with a live ensemble. Must have been a great experience.
@donr6705
2 жыл бұрын
I saw it with the Glass Ensemble also, in 2002 in Boston.
@Coasterdude02149
Жыл бұрын
@@donr6705 I wish I had known about that, I'd have given almost anything to see it that way. I was living just outside of Boston in 2002, where was it shown?
@donr6705
Жыл бұрын
@Coasterdude, this is a big ask after 20+ years! The Orpheum entered my mind - does this sound like it could be right? It was a big, old venue with a full orchestra pit.
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