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The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhancement of episodic memory and the acceleration of associative streams of memories can alter and enhance our recognition of patterns in our lives in various ways. If we are presented with quick associative chains of past experiences, we can see a pattern in a body of information that is usually not at once presented to our “inner eye” as such.
Sebastian Marincolo
When I work with Godfrey, I don’t spend a lot of time looking at the image. I look at it once. Maybe twice, but not more than twice. Then I depend on the inaccuracy of my memory to create the appropriate distance between the music and the image. I knew right away that the image and the music could not be on top of each other, because then there would be no room for the spectators to invent a place for themselves. Of course, in commercials and propaganda films, the producers don’t want to leave a space: the strategy of propaganda is not to leave a space, not to leave any question. Commercials are propaganda tools in which image and music are locked together in order to make an explicit point, like “Buy these shoes” or “Go to this casino.” The strategy of art is precisely the opposite. I would describe it this way: When you listen to a piece of music and you look at an image at the same time, you are metaphorically making a journey to that image. It’s a metaphorical distance, but it’s a real one all the same, and it’s in that journey that the spectator forms a relationship to the music and the image. Without that, it’s all made for us and we don’t have to invent anything. In works like Godfrey’s, and in works, for that matter, like Bob Wilson’s, the spectators are supposed to invent something. They are supposed to tell the story of Einstein. In Godfrey’s movies Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, the words in the title are the only words there are. The journey that we make from the armchair to the image is the process by which we make the image and the music our own. Without that, we have no personal connection. The idea of a personal interpretation comes about through traversing that distance.
Philip Glass
Sometimes guitar riffs get repeated over and over ("vamping," in the lingo of musicians), but generally there is a soloist proving variation that runs above that background, lest the song sound monotonous. Philip Glass's minimalist compositions (such as the soundtrack to 'Koyaanisqatsi') deviate from much of the classical music that preceded them, with much less obvious movement than, say, the Romantic-era compositions that his work seems to rebel against, yet his works, too, consist not only of extensive repetition but also of constant (though subtle) variation. Virtually every song you've ever heard consists of exactly that: themes that recur over and over, overlaid with variations.
Gary F. Marcus (Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning)
La ficcionalización del documental Entre las estrategias que usan los documentales para asemejarse a las ficciones están: Dramatizaciones: a falta de material audiovisual del hecho relatado, se recurre a actores y actrices para interpretar lo que sucedió. El documental Chuck Norris vs. Communism (Ilinca Călugăreanu, 2015) está construido en muy buena parte por dramatizaciones de los hechos que tuvieron lugar tal como son recordados por los sujetos del filme. Reencuadres y retakes: las entrevistas y ciertos sucesos para los documentales pueden repetirse, en caso de que cierto ángulo o posición de la cámara resulte más atractivo, o para tener la cantidad suficiente de tomas en la edición: se le pide al sujeto que vuelva a servirse comida, o que diga de nuevo alguna frase en voz alta, de modo similar a los retakes en las películas de ficción. Animaciones, representaciones de sueños, fantasías, alucinaciones: ante la incapacidad de conseguir material audiovisual, se recurren a animaciones o distorsiones de la imagen y el sonido con tal de representar cómo se sintió/vio desde la subjetividad del personaje. The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher, 2015) cuenta el problema de parálisis de sueño que de manera crónica sufren los sujetos, y sus pesadillas son relatadas por medio de animaciones y distorsiones de la imagen (ralentización, filtros de colores, sombras digitales, etcétera). Música para dramatizar: a pesar de que el diseño de sonido en los documentales es visto como algo de poca manipulación, es cierto que en otros documentales puede resultar enormemente significativo para ambientar o dirigir los hechos (en documentales sobre músicos, como Gimme Shelter, Charlotte Zwerin y Albert y David Maysles, 1970); y en otros casos, es la música la que dirige el montaje de las imágenes (como la famosa saga inaugurada por Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, 1982). Esta segunda alternativa produce una espectacularización de la edición, y con ello, de la construcción artificial del mundo a través de ella con un interés emotivo-dramático. En general, el uso de recursos narrativos estructurales (arcos narrativos, clímax, turning points, suspenso, sorpresa): para mantener interés en el relato, como tener una pregunta guía al inicio y responderla hasta el final; u ocultar la verdadera identidad o relación con los hechos de un personaje, como en el documental Life 2.0 (Jason Spingarn-Koff, 2010), donde poco a poco, con la manipulación de la luz, se va revelando el aspecto físico de la persona con el avatar de niña que pone bombas en plazas comerciales de Second Life.
Sergio J. Aguilar Alcalá (Decir la verdad mintiendo (Spanish Edition))
koyaanis’qatsi.
Barbara Wood (Daughter of the Sun: A Novel of The Toltec Empire)
Koyaanisqatsi!
Edward Abbey (Edward Abbey Bestsellers: Fire on the Mountain, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke Lives!)