It's pretty amazing that Pruit-Igoe became decayed and crime-ridden while Carr Village, a smaller scale apartment complex that was literally across the street from Pruit-Igoe, was relatively stable with very little crime. It's amazing how the atmosphere can change just by crossing the street.
It's not the street. It's the type of people living there 😂 millions of people in Eastern Europe and China live in similar conditions but they don't turn them into that.
@@user-wu2er4zd1d Those same “types” of people (black people, but our friend here doesn’t want to dog whistle TOO loudly,) lived in Carr Village as well, which was, as previously stated, perfectly fine. Cute racism though! Now go away forever please.
The most beautiful piece of music in this film, imo. I'd love to see an orchestra performing it, specially the part when all the brass instruments start "singing" along with the strings. Amazingly powerfull and meaningful!
One of the most horrific and enthralling passages in this film....... both for the images and Philip Glass's unbelievable score.........................GOD, this film is genius.
my dad lived with the person who was in charge of making that trailer and my dad would play koyaanisqatsi for him so im guessing that he greatly influenced the music choice in that trailer
One of the greatest and important artistic pieces of our time. The other two in the series do not compare to this one. The kids thinking that this is a copy of the GTA IV trailer really need to buy this film and become educated.
Pruitt-Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 and completed in 1955 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. (information from wikipedia)
Director: Godfrey Reggio; Music: Philip Glass. This film, particuarly the "Pruit Igoe" seen both enthralled and depressed me when I saw it '84. Bear in mind, the blown-out hulks you see here are the abandoned buildings prepped for demolition, which amplifies the horror.
i agree, phillip glass and the editors did an excellent job climaxing the song with these scenes, and pruitt-igoe is a truly fascinating anecdote of history, i actually want to go there
@sonicemotion Totally agree. I think it's because the buildings are familiar, but we never get that kind of perspective of them usually. And the music just amplifies that feeling, whatever it is...
Over time, these conditions grew to almost epic proportions, yet there were still people who continued to thrive in this environment, taking care of their buildings, forming complex neighbor associations, and generally being decent. However, there was racism, and these people were not relocated to better areas, and eventually moved out using their own money. The city then began to dump whoever they wanted in the projects who didn't have money or any number of other problems.
Horribly ironic that Minoru Yamasaki was the architect of America’s 2 most “symbolically iconic” imploded post-WW2 buildings: Pruitt-Igoe and The World Trade Center. Obviously different circumstances but both events carried significant symbolism.
You know, we had a crisis like this before and the US recovered. Seems my grandparents had some real struggles through the depression, but they made it through just fine. I guess I was always taught (since I was a child) that people learn from their mistakes. Those who thought real estate was the new stock market deserved what they got. Also, bleeding heart socialists got the bright idea that EVERYONE should own a house. Greedy bankers agreed. They all should have learned their lesson but...
I feel sorry for the architect of this, Minoru Yamasaki, he also did the world trade centre buildings. I can't imagine what it is like to see your buildings destroyed within your own lifetime. I suppose it is all sand castles before the tide anyway.
In 2000, Koyaanisqatsi was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The decay of society - the inevitable cost of overpopulation and overconsumption. This is one of the eeriest pieces of video I've ever seen in my life.
After having seen this movie a lot of times, I find this sequence the most impressive. Guess that these houses are all gone, but strange enough, these pictures make me feel run away from these scenes and, at the same time, go there and walk around in between the ruins to see them with my own eyes.
i know someone who lives a life in 'koyaanisqatsi' . all my love and loyalty don't help... so i just stand back and watch, ready to pick up the pieces......... again robbiew8n
Phenomenal antithesis created between the soundtrack and the movie as a whole. It's far clearer if you watch it all, as I'm sure most/some of you are aware.
Saw the Glass keyboard ensemble take on the cognoscenti at the St. Louis Art Museum in the early seventies.... concert REALLY blew em away - right out the door!
This is socialism. This is egalitarianism. This is the workers' paradise, where all shall have the same little space provided by those who know What's Good for Us, though they won't live there themselves. Thank you, Bismark and all the other Germans who brought us to this, and all the architects who thought a city was just a collection of the buildings they designed. Jane Jacobs had your number....
Fair comment. When I was a little boy I opened a packet of cornflakes and out popped a plastic spaceman, carrying a United Nations flag, the promise of a better future where we live in harmony and drive hover-cars hasn't come about (much to the little boys disappointment) so I just want to get on with it, even stoppers and thinkers make mistakes (lead in petrol for one) so lets GET GOING....
It was very interesting to read the comments people have. I first saw Koyaaniqatsi in college, it was being shown by the philosophy club. Afterwards we talked about the message of the movie - ironically what the movie showed me is that while our way of life has caused some problems we have also accomplished amazing things. While the Hopi Indians spoke against "life out of balance" life without risks is life that does not advance.
I believe the beginning scenes themselves are in New York--and a few of demolitions as well. But the majority of footage, especially of the massive housing projects (known as the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, a huge failure), was shot in St. Louis.
this is really cool, I first saw this a t college wen i was like 16 and blew it off thinking it was a bit dull, it was only after thou it started playin in my mind and wat it means....... now i think the film is amazing, the journey, no acting just visuals, and the message I get from it: The evolution of man is the destruction of man.
@MrMuhigi He was talking about the people who destroyed the building long before the demolition teams took it down. He was talking about the tenants of the buildings.
This film was naive in it's overly cynical view of humanity, but it's still a powerful work none the less. (And Phillip Glass is a genius, his soundtrack made the whole movie worth it)
Pruit Igoe, the biggest social-house project failure in history. It was supposed to host the black and white community into separated buildings, but it turned out to be the St Louis heaven for crooks, drug dealers and pimps. The person who created Pruit Igoe also created the WTC building, his name is Minoru Yamasaki, a Japanese architect.
Is this regarding versions of the piece across albums/compilations or re-releases of the film? You're right that the sound for this doesn't have depth, it's flat.
8:27 - The two triangular buildings are the Century Plaza Towers near Los Angeles. In addition to the Pruit-Igoe and the World Trade Center, Century Plaza was also designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
it is hard to imagine that land could be so valuable that those building could be demolished for redevelopment; one wonders how great the new ones will be. . Cheers. from, del-boy .
@MrChops1978 He was an architect. He designed a building with the purpose to house those that were less fortunate. You can't possibly blame him for the failure of social structure.
AZ, our Founding Fathers lived at the dawn of the industrial revolution. They could not foresee the modern era industrial ghetto. Bronx ghetto+Pruitt Igoe=dumping grounds for human beings not beneficial to corporate bottom lines. "Personal responsibility" applies only to denying poor people state benefits, not to CEOs who run businesses into the ground and blackmail the taxpayers into bailing them out. Communism is not the answer, but valuing people above profit is.
my very favorite sequence in the film, although not necessarily my fave music. something about big huge housing projects that were once filled with poor, desperate people being demolished feels so incredibly dark and ominous to me.
@cosmonauta2001 - These buildings are part of Pruitt-Igoe, a public housing project that was built in St. Louis in the 1950s in an attempt to deal with slum living in the city at the time. They were considered to be a massive failure -- for a number of reasons, including poorly-designed living conditions that were trying to conserve space, cheaply-used building materials, and a high crime rate -- and were imploded in the early 1970s, less than twenty years after they were built.
Dr Manhattan FTW. This was an excellent choice for the Watchmen soundtrack- the link to this film about the simultaneous horror and beauty of our civilization is powerful.
Exactly Callerhavien. I can understand where conspiracy theorists come from. It's far more comforting to believe that a group of people are controlling everything in the world (even if that group is evil) than it is to believe that the entire course of world events can change completely at random all on its own.
The story of how the tragedy that was Pruitt Igoe came to be is even more depressing. We have seen it played out so many times. They just demolished the last Robert Taylor building in Chicago. P.I. (1972) was a harbinger of the sad fate of warehousing the poor.
It was meant to be a huge, cheap residential area. Everything seemed perfect at the time, the buildings were sound, the architecture was actually pretty good and costs at a minimum, but of course when the human element was introduced everything went to hell and Pruit Igoe became a prime example of how deep society can sink and just how low humanity can go.
The buildings are not brutalist, they are simply Modernist. Minoru Yamasaki was not trying to social engineer anything. Oscar Newman has shown pretty conclusively that the density of residents and their concentration in elevator lobbies, combined with social disruption from relocation is the primary cause for the failure of these projects. Identical buildings with richer inhabitants are doing just fine.
@guitarslingeroflove This footage is just a clip of a full length film "Koyaanisqatsi." The best footage in this particular video were taken at a failed housing complex in St Louis MO. named "Pruitt Igoe." The complex itself lasted less than 20 years before it had to be demolished. MrChops1978 above summed it up pretty good.
When you give someone something for nothing they often do not respect what they have received. Do you not treasure what you have to work hard for. The true failure here is that people get demoralized and lack the motivation to be a useful part of the working society.
Yes, spooky, demoralizing, sad, haunted by a menacing violent spirit. Glass' music was perfect for the film, yet I wish people didn't associate Glass with Reggio. I think it inhibits people from appreciating the beauty in Glass' music, and Minimalism in general.
One of the BEST music by one of the best composers of the century. This litteraly defines urban-life of the 20-21 centuries.
It's pretty amazing that Pruit-Igoe became decayed and crime-ridden while Carr Village, a smaller scale apartment complex that was literally across the street from Pruit-Igoe, was relatively stable with very little crime.
It's amazing how the atmosphere can change just by crossing the street.
It's not the street. It's the type of people living there 😂 millions of people in Eastern Europe and China live in similar conditions but they don't turn them into that.
@@user-wu2er4zd1d Those same “types” of people (black people, but our friend here doesn’t want to dog whistle TOO loudly,) lived in Carr Village as well, which was, as previously stated, perfectly fine. Cute racism though! Now go away forever please.
koyaanisqatsi is one of the most powerful films I have ever watched. It is my inspiration for almost everything!
The most beautiful piece of music in this film, imo. I'd love to see an orchestra performing it, specially the part when all the brass instruments start "singing" along with the strings. Amazingly powerfull and meaningful!
One of the most horrific and enthralling passages in this film....... both for the images and Philip Glass's unbelievable score.........................GOD, this film is genius.
Life is complicated. I've killed people, smuggling people, sold people. perhaps here, things will be different.
smuggled*
Liberteen1990 😂
@@Liberteen666 no. ing. think deep.
IV
my dad lived with the person who was in charge of making that trailer and my dad would play koyaanisqatsi for him so im guessing that he greatly influenced the music choice in that trailer
This was a great song for GTA IV, in fact it's the reason I bought the game in the first place.
so poor.
This song is so awesomely powerful.
Magic Word!
“power”(ful)
One of the greatest and important artistic pieces of our time. The other two in the series do not compare to this one.
The kids thinking that this is a copy of the GTA IV trailer really need to buy this film and become educated.
Pruitt-Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 and completed in 1955 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. (information from wikipedia)
Director: Godfrey Reggio; Music: Philip Glass. This film, particuarly the "Pruit Igoe" seen both enthralled and depressed me when I saw it '84. Bear in mind, the blown-out hulks you see here are the abandoned buildings prepped for demolition, which amplifies the horror.
i agree, phillip glass and the editors did an excellent job climaxing the song with these scenes, and pruitt-igoe is a truly fascinating anecdote of history, i actually want to go there
Philip is a great composer and conductor, and Godfrey is a great director. :)
absolutely. this trilogy is so pertinent in these times... it needs to be viewed over and over again.
yo this is the dope shit... all hail glass... the dopest musician
I'm glad this video gets people thinking. It's a testament to its power.
"Everything seemed perfect at the time when the human element was introduced everything went to hell"
Again, "social engineering in concrete"
This movie has changed my life. Pure Genius.
This music is so haunting...
@sonicemotion Totally agree. I think it's because the buildings are familiar, but we never get that kind of perspective of them usually. And the music just amplifies that feeling, whatever it is...
brilliant video with a fantastic music!
i love such a "ghost" places, houses!
Over time, these conditions grew to almost epic proportions, yet there were still people who continued to thrive in this environment, taking care of their buildings, forming complex neighbor associations, and generally being decent. However, there was racism, and these people were not relocated to better areas, and eventually moved out using their own money. The city then began to dump whoever they wanted in the projects who didn't have money or any number of other problems.
Horribly ironic that Minoru Yamasaki was the architect of America’s 2 most “symbolically iconic” imploded post-WW2 buildings: Pruitt-Igoe and The World Trade Center.
Obviously different circumstances but both events carried significant symbolism.
Minoru Yamasaki designed the buildings in Pruitt Igoe. He also designed the World Trade Center... Pretty strange.
Coincidence? I think not! It must be a rothschild/lizard people/flat earth conspiracy
How arduously humankind's creations are brought to life, and how easily they are destroyed.
It's also on the soundtrack if you listen to "The Journey" radio in-game.
this film symbalizes a much bigger spectrum, than human impact. its nuckin futs
Love this radio station... Mainly because of Pruit Igoe...
You know, we had a crisis like this before and the US recovered. Seems my grandparents had some real struggles through the depression, but they made it through just fine.
I guess I was always taught (since I was a child) that people learn from their mistakes.
Those who thought real estate was the new stock market deserved what they got. Also, bleeding heart socialists got the bright idea that EVERYONE should own a house. Greedy bankers agreed. They all should have learned their lesson but...
“Things Will Be Different”
Tomorrow will be 15yrs ago..
Damn.
I feel sorry for the architect of this, Minoru Yamasaki, he also did the world trade centre buildings. I can't imagine what it is like to see your buildings destroyed within your own lifetime. I suppose it is all sand castles before the tide anyway.
It’s probably not that uncommon for an architect. Lots of his buildings are still standing though.
In 2000, Koyaanisqatsi was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Played this movie for my Methodist church weekly movie group; went surprisingly well, only three "walkouts" out of 12 people!
So many years ago, so many years ahead!
I agree. Very much so. Its very eerie.
completely, one of the best documentaries ever made
I remember watching this is in Architecture school and everyone was cheering!
Oh, did they all clap?
The decay of society - the inevitable cost of overpopulation and overconsumption. This is one of the eeriest pieces of video I've ever seen in my life.
After having seen this movie a lot of times, I find this sequence the most impressive. Guess that these houses are all gone, but strange enough, these pictures make me feel run away from these scenes and, at the same time, go there and walk around in between the ruins to see them with my own eyes.
i know someone who lives a life in 'koyaanisqatsi' . all my love and loyalty don't help... so i just stand back and watch, ready to pick up the pieces......... again
robbiew8n
not just the music, the whole style of the trailer is sposed to be this, which is awesome
I saw this performance of philip glass and his orchestra(ensemble) in new brunswick underneath the images from this movie..now you know..
I thought, when I heard this song in GTA, that it was a themesong of Batman but I never looked it up.. But it does remind me of Batman in some way!
My dad grew up in the pruit igoe projects in STL.
Phenomenal antithesis created between the soundtrack and the movie as a whole. It's far clearer if you watch it all, as I'm sure most/some of you are aware.
Saw the Glass keyboard ensemble take on the cognoscenti at the St. Louis Art Museum in the early seventies.... concert REALLY blew em away - right out the door!
great song..great video
This is socialism. This is egalitarianism. This is the workers' paradise, where all shall have the same little space provided by those who know What's Good for Us, though they won't live there themselves. Thank you, Bismark and all the other Germans who brought us to this, and all the architects who thought a city was just a collection of the buildings they designed. Jane Jacobs had your number....
This video shows that we, humans, are the end of ourselves.
Philip Glass is my hero.
when 9/11 happened i thought of this part of the film... even though it was made in 1983, it makes way more sense today then it did back them.
amazing scene!
Fair comment. When I was a little boy I opened a packet of cornflakes and out popped a plastic spaceman, carrying a United Nations flag, the promise of a better future where we live in harmony and drive hover-cars hasn't come about (much to the little boys disappointment) so I just want to get on with it, even stoppers and thinkers make mistakes (lead in petrol for one) so lets GET GOING....
It was very interesting to read the comments people have. I first saw Koyaaniqatsi in college, it was being shown by the philosophy club. Afterwards we talked about the message of the movie - ironically what the movie showed me is that while our way of life has caused some problems we have also accomplished amazing things. While the Hopi Indians spoke against "life out of balance" life without risks is life that does not advance.
breath-taking. best bit of koyaa,
I believe the beginning scenes themselves are in New York--and a few of demolitions as well. But the majority of footage, especially of the massive housing projects (known as the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, a huge failure), was shot in St. Louis.
the best film ever!
Coincidentally, the World Trade Center was designed by the same architect of those buildings.
this is really cool, I first saw this a t college wen i was like 16 and blew it off thinking it was a bit dull, it was only after thou it started playin in my mind and wat it means....... now i think the film is amazing, the journey, no acting just visuals, and the message I get from it: The evolution of man is the destruction of man.
@MrMuhigi He was talking about the people who destroyed the building long before the demolition teams took it down. He was talking about the tenants of the buildings.
I think is very unique and very well done.
I was born in 1981, that is after the "hippie" era...
Finding and understanding the root of the problem is always important.
this is too good for my brain to wrap around.
Very nice.
I think that when asked about his thoughts after the demolition, he was quoted as saying "I never knew people could be that destructive!"...
some of the best timelapse put to film.
i'm sure you're an internationally acclaimed composer who has altered the course of music history, too.
This film was naive in it's overly cynical view of humanity, but it's still a powerful work none the less.
(And Phillip Glass is a genius, his soundtrack made the whole movie worth it)
Pruit Igoe, the biggest social-house project failure in history. It was supposed to host the black and white community into separated buildings, but it turned out to be the St Louis heaven for crooks, drug dealers and pimps.
The person who created Pruit Igoe also created the WTC building, his name is Minoru Yamasaki, a Japanese architect.
What's sad is they still haven't built over this site, you can still see where the buildings stood.
Bad ass song. This is music right here.
You are certainly right about that!
thx 4 the clip!
1982 = Bad sound
1998 = Better
2004 Redesign = Better
2014 LIVE = MORE BETTER
2008 = Better
Is this regarding versions of the piece across albums/compilations or re-releases of the film? You're right that the sound for this doesn't have depth, it's flat.
8:27 - The two triangular buildings are the Century Plaza Towers near Los Angeles. In addition to the Pruit-Igoe and the World Trade Center, Century Plaza was also designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
Time is relentless.
this music is beautiful.
it is hard to imagine that land could be so valuable that those building could be demolished for redevelopment; one wonders how great the new ones will be.
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy
.
just like gta 4 first trailer and in new york 2
@MrChops1978 He was an architect. He designed a building with the purpose to house those that were less fortunate. You can't possibly blame him for the failure of social structure.
AZ, our Founding Fathers lived at the dawn of the industrial revolution. They could not foresee the modern era industrial ghetto. Bronx ghetto+Pruitt Igoe=dumping grounds for human beings not beneficial to corporate bottom lines. "Personal responsibility" applies only to denying poor people state benefits, not to CEOs who run businesses into the ground and blackmail the taxpayers into bailing them out. Communism is not the answer, but valuing people above profit is.
my very favorite sequence in the film, although not necessarily my fave music. something about big huge housing projects that were once filled with poor, desperate people being demolished feels so incredibly dark and ominous to me.
@cosmonauta2001 - These buildings are part of Pruitt-Igoe, a public housing project that was built in St. Louis in the 1950s in an attempt to deal with slum living in the city at the time. They were considered to be a massive failure -- for a number of reasons, including poorly-designed living conditions that were trying to conserve space, cheaply-used building materials, and a high crime rate -- and were imploded in the early 1970s, less than twenty years after they were built.
Dr Manhattan FTW. This was an excellent choice for the Watchmen soundtrack- the link to this film about the simultaneous horror and beauty of our civilization is powerful.
Exactly Callerhavien.
I can understand where conspiracy theorists come from. It's far more comforting to believe that a group of people are controlling everything in the world (even if that group is evil) than it is to believe that the entire course of world events can change completely at random all on its own.
The story of how the tragedy that was Pruitt Igoe came to be is even more depressing. We have seen it played out so many times. They just demolished the last Robert Taylor building in Chicago. P.I. (1972) was a harbinger of the sad fate of warehousing the poor.
Perfect! Now I hope the original full screen IRE version (not cropped top and bottom) will become widely available. Anyway: thanks for posting.
It was meant to be a huge, cheap residential area. Everything seemed perfect at the time, the buildings were sound, the architecture was actually pretty good and costs at a minimum, but of course when the human element was introduced everything went to hell and Pruit Igoe became a prime example of how deep society can sink and just how low humanity can go.
The buildings are not brutalist, they are simply Modernist. Minoru Yamasaki was not trying to social engineer anything.
Oscar Newman has shown pretty conclusively that the density of residents and their concentration in elevator lobbies, combined with social disruption from relocation is the primary cause for the failure of these projects. Identical buildings with richer inhabitants are doing just fine.
This song was perfect for GTA IV. Not just the first trailer, but also in the closing credits, at least in the first part of the closing credits.
@guitarslingeroflove This footage is just a clip of a full length film "Koyaanisqatsi." The best footage in this particular video were taken at a failed housing complex in St Louis MO. named "Pruitt Igoe." The complex itself lasted less than 20 years before it had to be demolished. MrChops1978 above summed it up pretty good.
When you give someone something for nothing they often do not respect what they have received. Do you not treasure what you have to work hard for. The true failure here is that people get demoralized and lack the motivation to be a useful part of the working society.
ΠΟΤΕ ΔΕΝ ΚΡΙΝΩ!ΑΠΛΑ ΛΕΩ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΠΟΨΗ ΜΟΥ.ΦΙΛΕ ΜΟΥ ΤΟ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ ΣΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΟ ΘΕΜΑ ΠΟΥ ΤΟ ΣΥΝΟΔΕΥΕΙΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΕΛΕΙΟ!!!!!
I like it!!
Yes, spooky, demoralizing, sad, haunted by a menacing violent spirit. Glass' music was perfect for the film, yet I wish people didn't associate Glass with Reggio. I think it inhibits people from appreciating the beauty in Glass' music, and Minimalism in general.
Finally I get the context of the music
Also used in the movie Watchmen. In the scen where Dr. Manhattan came to be.
IPNOTIZANTE!! ALUCINANTE!!
koyaanisqatsi - UMA VIDA EM TRANSFORMAÇÃO
he, they used this as a soundtrack to the first trailer of the game Grand Theft Auro 4!
WattsitLive. Yes. His Glassworks (here on youtube) is a great example of this type of music.