Title of a film w/o any dialogue - 'sounds like'
Keeanaskatzu..........
or Chianaskatsu, or even Quianaskatzu. It had background music and
showed transitions like dawn to daylight to sunset to night, in high
speed, or flowers opening and closing, traffic and people hustling at
high and low speed and clouds and sky in slow motion. It was out 12-15
years ago and may have been a foreign film short. The title was like a
Japanese or maybe Native American Indian word. It was fascinating to
watch. I would love to find a copy and buy it.

Hello.

Koyaanisqatsi

source: newsgroup messages:

"It starts with nature and you watch sped up film of plants growing
and dying and you watch the days change to nights, the cloud
movements, etc.  The music is extremely repetitive and speeds up as
the movie progresses into the future, where you watch cars driving
through intersections at sped up rates.  You watch the same
intersection as it goes from day to night."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=3BBE0A72.FFDC181B%40Yahoo.com

"Does anyone know the speed at which some of the sped-up film (i.e.
city
scenes)  is shown in Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi? Maybe not an
exact
number but some estimate."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=zDnj4.12022%24%25%256.191593%40typhoon.columbus.rr.com


Also see this description on Amazon.com
"First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary from
1983--shot mostly in the desert Southwest and New York City on a tiny
budget with no script, then attracting the support of Francis Ford
Coppola and George Lucas and enlisting the indispensable musical
contribution of Philip Glass--delighted college students on the
midnight circuit and fans of minimalism for many years. Meanwhile, its
techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots
(alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass's reiterative
music (from the meditative to the orgiastic)--as well as its
ecology-minded imagery--crept into the consciousness of popular
culture. The influence of Koyaanisqatsi, or "life out of balance," has
by now become unmistakable in television advertisements, music videos,
and, of course, similar movies such as Fricke's own Chronos and Craig
McCourry's Apogee. Reggio shot a sequel, Powaqqatsi (1988), and
completed the trilogy with Naqoyqatsi (2002). Koyaanisqatsi provides
the uninitiated the chance to see where it all started--along with an
intense audiovisual rush"
Source: Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXAY/

"An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is
visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political
agenda. Without a story, dialogue, or characters, Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
(the film's title is a Hopi word roughly translated into English as
"life out of balance") is composed of nature imagery, manipulated in
slow motion, double exposure or time lapse, juxtaposed with footage of
humans' devastating environmental impact on the planet. Starting with
an ancient rock wall painting, the film moves through sequences
depicting clouds, waves, and other natural features, then into
man-made landscapes such as buildings, earth-altering construction
machinery, and cars"
Source: Barnesandnoble.com / All Movie Guide
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?EAN=27616878939

More information at the official site koyaanisqatsi.org:
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php

Also available from half.com:
DVD 
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1103415006
VHS
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1952030

search strategy: google groups: "sped up film"

I hope this helps.

Thank you so much for your prompt, clear, and highly informative
answer! I t was much more than I expected!2.00

Brilliant cinematography!!!

There is a sequel Powaqaatsi - not as good, I thought.

Oh - one more thing - you really NEED to see it on a big screen.  You
just get immersed it it.  Somehow, the impact is lost on the typical
TV screen.

And there's even a third one, although produced by Steven Soderbergh,
instead of Francis Ford Coppola:


Naqoyqatsi:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0145937

The other two at IMDB:

Powaqqatsi:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095895

Koyaanisqatsi:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085809

If you're looking to buy Koyaaniqatsi, you should look for the "2 for
1" deal on Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, both of them are available
remastered for about 20 USD.

Thank you for the tip.
-juggler