GIFaanisqatsi

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Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 documentary Koyaanisqatsi is an oddity. It has no conventional narrative or central characters, instead relying on Philip Glass’ hypnotic score to bind together disparate images. Those (beautifully shot) images contrast the timelessness of nature with the urban modernity created by mankind. The film became a critical and commercial success, certainly when judged against the usual standards for non-narrative and documentary fare. Perhaps more importantly, the film’s distinct visual style – with its alternation of slow motion and time-lapse footage – became a staple of pop culture and proved as easy to spoof as it was to reference.

This project by Rico Monkeon, GIFaanisqatsi, takes an irreverent approach. It recreates the original film’s trailer by using animated GIFs that it harvested from Giphy. Each time you fire up the project’s website it will generate another version of the trailer, using a random collage of GIFs tagged as being either slow motion or time-lapse, and synching them to the trailer’s soundtrack.

Read more about this project on filmscalpel.com/gifaanisqatsi/

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