AIA UK Film Night
Koyaanisqatsi
Tuesday, 28th February, 2012 at 7.00pm
BFI Screening Room
21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN
Please join us for a screening of the acclaimed film Koyaanisqatsi. This film will be accompanied by a Sustainability discussion. The film was originally released in 1982 and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It is often remembered for its time-lapse photography and powerful, haunting score by Philip Glass, KOYAANISQATSI is a symphony of colour and light. It is a ballet of nature and technology. It is sophisticated flood of word-less imagery that tries to show us what was, what is and what should be.... Reggio furns the familiar ino the strange and the ordinary into things of beauty. He places the world on a microscope, distorting its perspective but creating images that are unique and breathtaking. - Duane Dudek, Milwuakee Sentinel. We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because
there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the “original” is the proliferation of the standardized. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive. - Godfrey Reggio
1.5 CES Credits (Sustainability)
Seating is limited. RSVP required
Please RSVP to: chapterexecutive@aiauk.org
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