Koyaanisqatsi

Throughout this course, the composers we studied all had different approached to creating music, and that is why many of them are well known today. The three most notable composers who combine unusual elements in their music were Frank Zappa, John Cage, and Pamela Z. Frank Zappa was an American artist who had no desire to fit into a single style of music, and he had no interest in creating music for cultural conventions. He created music in the manners he saw fit. His music has influence from rock

environmental message. John Luther Adams’ environmental pieces were focused on the music and each individuals’ experiences in nature. John Luther Adams used unique stage set up and performance location to share his environmental message. Phillip Glass’ Koyaanisqatsi was used in a film. This film used visual images to further express the changes happening around us, both in the city and in nature. Both composers were passionate about the changes happening in nature due to human involvement, but they used very

Rumble Fish The novel-based American drama movie Rumble Fish was directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983-the author of the novel S.E. Hinton also co-wrote the screen play. The cinematographer is Stephen Burum, the music is by Stewart Copeland, and the editor is Barry Malkin and the. Zoetrope Studios produced the movie with a 10-million-dollar budget (Clarke). The plot is primarily about the struggles of the main two characters, Rusty James (Matt Dillon) and his older brother the Motorcycle Boy

Across America, countless tribes and cultures have been practiced for centuries. There is so much diversity amongst these people ranging from the north eastern Iroquois to the south western Hopi people. Even though these people live in such different lifestyles, many of the indigenous tribes have similar perspectives on the world, especially after western expansion during the 1800's. Tribes, no matter where they are geographically, all have some sort of tradition or ritual that they do which can

the environmental catastrophe is to find sustainable solutions. Josh wants green jobs and for the who world to rethink their energy resources. Corporations and the government are the bad guys in all of the films in the Unit. Crude, Food Inc., Koyaanisqatsi, Gasland, and Fuel all have one thing in common, both caused by industrial production lead by companies and corporations. Every single film in this Unit shows different stages of the environment. The environment is pure and undisrupted by human

The first big experimental or avant-garde film of the 1930s was L'Age d'Or, or The Golden Age, released in 1930. It was directed by Luis Buñuel and written by him and one of the most famous painters of all-time, surrealist Salvador Dalí. However, the two were not getting along by the time production began and Buñuel supposedly ran Dalí off the set while brandishing a hammer. They were fresh off making a landmark in avant-garde cinema, the shocking Un Chien Andalou. That was a short film, but

Ecological disaster is known to be dreadful not only in its immediate damages, but most importantly in its intangible long term destructions. One such catastrophic disaster that has been haunting millions of Vietnamese people and the U.S vets over four decades is the Agent Orange. Agent Orange is a powerful mixture of chemical herbicides, whose main component is the toxic dioxin, that causes serious health issues as well as extensively contaminates the environment. More than 19 million gallons

Fight Club is the opposite of Watchmen, the style of David Fincher and his faded green aesthetic fit perfectly in the world of Fight Club and help to give the Film a sense of identity that wouldn 't exist if the film was created by a lesser director. The way this Film is shot, the editing, the score, it all combines to help tell the story in a new way that feels entirely separate from the book. Additionally, Fincher works to bring the concepts of the book to life through adaptation not translation