ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi language)
n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life disintegrating. 4. life out of balance. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

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.

it’s not that we use technology, we live technology.

the film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the US. the visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music.

the movie.
the music.
the site.
the explanation.

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