"Life out of balance" 27 April 1983 Factual, Music 86 mins
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
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Ed Asner as Self (archive footage)
Pat Benatar as Self
Johnny Carson as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage)
Lou Dobbs as Self (archive footage)
Linda Ellerbee as Self (archive footage)
Peter Sellers as Self (archive footage)
Thomas Dolby as Self (archive footage)
Godfrey Reggio Director
Ron Fricke Director of Photography
Ron Fricke Editor
Philip Glass Original Music Composer
Ron Fricke Screenplay
Godfrey Reggio Producer
Francis Ford Coppola Executive Producer
Gary Burritt Negative Cutter
Steve Maslow Sound Re-Recording Mixer
コヤニスカッティ Trailer
코야니스카시 Trailer
Кояанискатси Trailer
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance Trailer
Australia 27 October 1983
Belgium 27 April 1983
Brazil 25 December 1983
Czech Republic 01 February 1995
Germany 10 November 1983
Spain 23 October 1984
Finland 21 February 1986
France 24 August 1983
Hungary 07 February 1985
Ireland 14 September 2025
Netherlands 26 February 2003
Poland 01 October 1988
Portugal 01 January 1984
United States 27 April 1983
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1983:
02 December 1983
More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.
22 December 1983
In late 19th century Hong Kong, the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Coast Guard officer Dragon Ma is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.
07 January 1983
A young woman (Zeenat Aman), who grows up in the wild, knows the secret of a lost treasure, and is also the heir to the throne.
09 October 1983
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
10 August 1983
Three generations, the Chic, the Bumpkin and the New confront in a bourgeois family in Paris.
01 January 1983
Faithful adaptation of a story by Tomasi di Lampedusa on the encounter between a man and a mermaid, for the television series Ten Italian directors, ten Italian short stories , in which Gianni Amelio, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani participated among others.
09 December 1983
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami.
03 June 1983
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions.
19 October 1983
In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning.
16 January 1983
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
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