Free screening!
Free screening – no ticket necessary! All free La CinOMAthéque screenings will take place in the Truist Auditorium at the Orlando Museum of Art.
ACCESS FOR ALL AT OMA presents:
La CinOMAthéque: A collaboration between OMA and Enzian, with generous support provided by the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program. Access for All at OMA is a monthly free day dedicated to the community. La CinOMAthéque will be a series of 6 bimonthly free screenings of experimental, avant-garde, art films in the Truist auditorium at OMA on Access for All day.
Each screening will be introduced and include a talkback with OMA Chief Curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon and Enzian Programming Manager Tim Anderson.
Koyaanisqatsi:
Long before time-lapse cityscapes and non-narrative documentaries became staples of modern filmmaking, Koyaanisqatsi arrived like a transmission from another world. Directed by Godfrey Reggio and produced with the support of Francis Ford Coppola, this groundbreaking 1982 film rejected dialogue, characters, and traditional storytelling in favor of pure visual language—pairing arresting imagery with the hypnotic, minimalist score of Philip Glass.
The title, a Hopi word meaning “life out of balance,” sets the tone for a film that moves from vast, untouched landscapes to the overwhelming velocity of industrialized society. Utilizing pioneering time-lapse photography and slow-motion techniques, Reggio and cinematographer Ron Fricke created a sensory experience that forever changed the grammar of documentary and experimental cinema. Its influence can be felt everywhere, from modern environmental films to music videos, commercials, and even the visual language of filmmakers like Terrence Malick.
Upon its release, Koyaanisqatsi defied categorization and divided audiences, but over time it has become widely regarded as a landmark of experimental film and a cornerstone of environmental cinema, launching the Qatsi Trilogy and cementing its place in film history as a bold meditation on technology, humanity, and the fragile equilibrium between them.
Join us for a free screening of this immersive, mind-altering experience, an opportunity to witness a film that doesn’t just tell a story but rewires how stories can be told.
1982, 86 minutes, USA, In Hopi and English, directed by Godfrey Reggio, Not Rated
“Reggio and Glass's liturgy is that rarest of art forms: an avant-garde work with purpose and substance that also succeeds as entertainment.”
– Mark Bourne, DVD JOURNAL
“Koyaanisqatsi asks the viewers to ponder their relationship to a social system that has come to dominate them rather than serve them”
– T.V. GUIDE
“The worlds of the natural and the artificial are compared and contrasted in this non-narrative visual orgy.”
– Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
“An impressive visual and listening experience, that Reggio and Glass have made wonderful pictures and sounds, and that this film is a curious throwback to the 1960s, when it would have been a short subject to be viewed through a marijuana haze. Far out.”
– Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
