KOYAANISQATSI

Just saw that movie again.
KOYAANISQATSI.

A 1983 documentary using only pictures and music.
Showing and questioning modern civilization.
Saw it first time in my late teens. No exaggeration
to say it lastingly influenced my views.

Here are some links:
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi (german)

This film reminds me that our life styles could be so different.
For hours every day it's screens that get my attention whether
it's for professional reasons or for entertainment.
Mass produced items made of plastics, metal and glas are not
only worth longing for, they are crucial to own, I learned.
To indicate my place in society. To fuel the economy. To keep
cities' retail strips vibrant.
Bricks and concrete is what cities are built from. Biosphere
can't be controlled completely, yet, but it's not really a matter
in cities apart from design decisions.
Planting a million trees in Los Angeles, as projected, to me
is not a way to change our life styles. It's a design decision,
though probably a good one.
It's urban plants that are not planned or controlled
that remind me on the other side of life.

Bauhaus style architecture in Weimar

Bauhaus like family homes, recently built
in Weimar, Germany by different architects.

Here Bauhaus School of design and architecture
startet in 1919. Then moved to Dessau and Berlin,
where it was terminated in 1933 by the Nazi regime.