ABSTRACT
The film Koyaanisqatsi establishes surprising effects of alienation and empathy by the technically fairly simple means of running time at the wrong speed. It is a wonderful film, which fuses beautifully photographed images with a compelling musical score. The film was made under the direction of Godfrey Reggio, and the music, which is the film's only soundtrack there are no sound-effects and no dialogue was by Philip Glass. In architecture one has an ingrained habit of considering buildings and cities at different scales depending on the size of the site. In The Uses of Disorder, Richard Sennett stigmatized the impulse to zone cities, which has often been felt by urban designers, as "adolescent". Looking at human development at high speed, it is called as Neanderthal. On a geological timescale, the rocks takes the shape like slowly breaking waves, life forms do not show up; but imagine a film made from one still shot of a human taken with each generation.
