Koyaanisqatsi is one of the most profoundly beautiful films I’ve ever seen. Immediately accessible but shockingly innovative. It stitches together shots of nature and humanity using very simple techniques that render them at once alien and intimately familiar.
This looks to me to be a lot like an earlier short film he did called “Evidence”. Put simply, it was footage of children watching TV; no commentary or editorializing of any kind. It was astounding and terrifying to see the range of emotion evoked by what the children were watching of which the viewer is never aware. This looks to be very similar thematically, though I gather from what little I’ve read that it incorporates more modern forms of media as well.
