Again, an impressive art film that contrasts the one, with uneasy to digest content and music. The main power and character of this film lies in music and in repetativeness. The expression Koyanisqatsi means crazy wolrd in Hopi language.
The long-lasting shots and the slowly changing, extremely high standard of composed music creates a special feeling of being outer space and see the things happening, just everyday scenes, in our daily world with an alien like view, as if we were just visitors and saw how humans destroy Earth and themselves with their unsustainable life style.
The four basic elements appear in the changing environment as stable basis meanwhile war time destruction of the motherland is depicted by the explosion of an atomic bomb and the view of people having their sunbath in the sand next to a factory producing large contamination to the surroundings. The city traffic and crowd on rythmic music imlies on the rythm of consumption and the fast pace we live up our reserves...
The message is still clear, no matter when the one watchis this film, he'll understand the current feelings and implications of the author for the concern of a disapperaing bisophere and health of the mother Earth.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
The Holy Mountain by Jodorowsky Alexander
An extremely powerful and impressive art film, that is packed with creative and triggering artistic ideas in every scenes. The symbols are strongly related to the production and serve as an understanding basic principal. One has to know the general knowledge of history and religion to understand the meaning of the film. The presence of animals at each scene make it surreal and weird to see them perform human like actions, such as the fight of lizards and frogs for the fortress.
Jesus is depicted in a modern manner and his passio is turned into a travel in time and space to ages with mixed technological and moral development. The setting of the scenes is always connected to religion, Hindu symbols, Jerusalem etc.
Under these symbols Christ is shown to various worlds:
An utopic scene on Venus appears in the factory, where the “only man”, bares the power to have all woman and use their workforce as well as their sexuality. The factory produces artificially perfect society, from giving birth to providing special conditions at death with the latest technological advancements in an artistic way (e.g.last good bye kiss machine for funerals).
Mars, males manufacture weapons and ware fare equipment. The 60’s sex drugs and rock n roll is perfectly interpreted into guns and psychedelic substances as well as fashionable weapons suitable for every religion (Buddha pistol).
Jupiter, an art factory – Andy Warhol like. Production appears on large factory scale and financial wealth is created out of it. Sexuality is strongly expressed in the artworks, for instance the electronic vagina that is produced to work with an e-rod that reaches orgasm in it.
An other factory produces child-ware fare tools, according to government needs and proposals for wars world wide, in addition to children’s early training and education for war-fare activities against the centrally defined enemies.
Uranus, sexuality appears again in an aberrated form of making love under extreme conditions in bed with a horse in the room. In fact, all the place is dis-sized for humans with ornaments and utilities being too big or small for a human to use it comfortable.
Engasing the popularity of the nation is proposed by the financial advisor of the governor and the production of gas-chamber plus extra gas-utilities to reach the goal of killing 14M.
Neptune, we find ourselves back from semi-space age in an other age of Romans probably, where the local forces collect testiciles and store them in formal-dehyde for devotional practices.
An other life scene of street fights resembles for the tomato throwing fun practices in South America but turns in to insane massacre and strange fluids, liquids flowing out of people.
Pluto, the business of the central character is an architecture. The aim of his activity is to produce only shelter for people, home not is necessary. Shelters (coffins) he wants to produce and reduce the basic needs of humans in their no more existing homes. Eat in the factory, get entertained at public places.
The wholly mountain appears in connection with immortality. 9 man (+4000yrs old) live on the top and know the secret of life. The common goal of people in this scene is to reach immortality and find the formula for that and enlighten humanity which is united to one being by that time. They burn their money (if you keep it you die), destroy sex-image(desirable objects to sin).
A process of purification follows now in the mountains, with the use of the power of natural elements and pagan like devotional practices. Flower is the form of unification and peaceful meditation.
The trip continuous on a ship, where thoughts are revealed and connected into geometrical forms all resembling constructivist ideas. At the shore, under the holy mountain they cut off their hair and get involved into a party on graves. People at stages try to prove how to reach the Holy Mountain in their own ways, by poems, LSD or the man who is capable of crossing stones horizontally. However, they did not prove to be effective enough in convincing them to show the way to the top. The expedition continues towards the peak, also with stages gaining their
In the end at a round table, Jadorowsky reveals that we are all mortals but more real than ever, the goal of the mission has been succeeded and reached an inner purification. As a fringe into the participants face and to the viewers as well that he calls the camera man to zoom out and show, that each reality is from a certain point of view and reveal feelings in people after the ‘purification’. The declaration that the wholy mountain does not exist materially stuns everyone, thus calling for an inner and mental trigger of thoughts on life.
True solution is not reached for immortality, but moral issues have been discussed deeply for the beholder that a casual film would never evoke in the viewer.
The secret is revealed, the answer is to be found in yourself.
Jesus is depicted in a modern manner and his passio is turned into a travel in time and space to ages with mixed technological and moral development. The setting of the scenes is always connected to religion, Hindu symbols, Jerusalem etc.
Under these symbols Christ is shown to various worlds:
An utopic scene on Venus appears in the factory, where the “only man”, bares the power to have all woman and use their workforce as well as their sexuality. The factory produces artificially perfect society, from giving birth to providing special conditions at death with the latest technological advancements in an artistic way (e.g.last good bye kiss machine for funerals).
Mars, males manufacture weapons and ware fare equipment. The 60’s sex drugs and rock n roll is perfectly interpreted into guns and psychedelic substances as well as fashionable weapons suitable for every religion (Buddha pistol).
Jupiter, an art factory – Andy Warhol like. Production appears on large factory scale and financial wealth is created out of it. Sexuality is strongly expressed in the artworks, for instance the electronic vagina that is produced to work with an e-rod that reaches orgasm in it.
An other factory produces child-ware fare tools, according to government needs and proposals for wars world wide, in addition to children’s early training and education for war-fare activities against the centrally defined enemies.
Uranus, sexuality appears again in an aberrated form of making love under extreme conditions in bed with a horse in the room. In fact, all the place is dis-sized for humans with ornaments and utilities being too big or small for a human to use it comfortable.
Engasing the popularity of the nation is proposed by the financial advisor of the governor and the production of gas-chamber plus extra gas-utilities to reach the goal of killing 14M.
Neptune, we find ourselves back from semi-space age in an other age of Romans probably, where the local forces collect testiciles and store them in formal-dehyde for devotional practices.
An other life scene of street fights resembles for the tomato throwing fun practices in South America but turns in to insane massacre and strange fluids, liquids flowing out of people.
Pluto, the business of the central character is an architecture. The aim of his activity is to produce only shelter for people, home not is necessary. Shelters (coffins) he wants to produce and reduce the basic needs of humans in their no more existing homes. Eat in the factory, get entertained at public places.
The wholly mountain appears in connection with immortality. 9 man (+4000yrs old) live on the top and know the secret of life. The common goal of people in this scene is to reach immortality and find the formula for that and enlighten humanity which is united to one being by that time. They burn their money (if you keep it you die), destroy sex-image(desirable objects to sin).
A process of purification follows now in the mountains, with the use of the power of natural elements and pagan like devotional practices. Flower is the form of unification and peaceful meditation.
The trip continuous on a ship, where thoughts are revealed and connected into geometrical forms all resembling constructivist ideas. At the shore, under the holy mountain they cut off their hair and get involved into a party on graves. People at stages try to prove how to reach the Holy Mountain in their own ways, by poems, LSD or the man who is capable of crossing stones horizontally. However, they did not prove to be effective enough in convincing them to show the way to the top. The expedition continues towards the peak, also with stages gaining their
In the end at a round table, Jadorowsky reveals that we are all mortals but more real than ever, the goal of the mission has been succeeded and reached an inner purification. As a fringe into the participants face and to the viewers as well that he calls the camera man to zoom out and show, that each reality is from a certain point of view and reveal feelings in people after the ‘purification’. The declaration that the wholy mountain does not exist materially stuns everyone, thus calling for an inner and mental trigger of thoughts on life.
True solution is not reached for immortality, but moral issues have been discussed deeply for the beholder that a casual film would never evoke in the viewer.
The secret is revealed, the answer is to be found in yourself.
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