#koyaanisqatsi
The personal and the public. Private letters and open spaces. Home, exile. Chantal Akerman’s News From Home is often torn between personal introspection and visual ethnography. Here, its slow composure is put in to conversation with the chaos of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi. Whilst the former tackles the personal and transcends towards the universal, the latter uses the universal to invoke a self-observating experience. If Koyaanisqatsi signals a life out of balance, News From Home tries to rectify that balance - in pace, in space and in the everyday -Jessica McGoff
This is my new video essay in which I compare two ways of approaching the relationship between spaces and people in News From Home (Dir: Chantal Akerman) and Koyaanisqatsi (Dir:Godfrey Reggio).
Ocean in a Drop by Gogo Penguin 2019
Extracts from a new soundtrack to Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 cult doc Koyaanisqatsi which I saw live at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music in 2019
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“My husband knows no boundaries, he lives in a constant cycle of repeating his own mistakes. He complains and yells and drinks himself to sleep every night. He reminds me of his past while I can only think of the future. My husband, Steel loves me with all his heart, but his heart is stuck in the past. I can not leave him for I have never received this kind of broken detached paranoid love before that I have come to cherish and understand. This work is the part of me that wishes it could go back. I am a prisoner of time and I can not leave my dear sweet but alas the Time Traveler is unable to go back in time. I will sit here and hold my husbands head in silence. Waiting…. ”-Cynthia Diamonds
https://pinkboxteleport.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-traveler
