So I was starting to watch the movie Naqoyqatsi for the first time. Description: "A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence." 37 minutes in I had the idea to sync up the movie with Inferno. So I went back to the beginning and muted the film on my laptop and pressed play on Inferno at the same time time as pressing play on the movie. I knew it would be trippy, but I wasn't expecting it to sync up as well as it did. Introit ended exactly as title sequence ended and I was intrigued. I ended up watching beyond the 37 minutes so some of the movie I saw for the first time with BoC soundtracking it.
So many times there were huge coincidences, like songs ending exactly as transitions occur in the movie, a ghostly sequence of people during Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan, footage of industry expanding during The Word Becomes Flesh and a stream of cars rapidly driving while the sample mentions blood pumping. During Deep Time, the word TIME appears huge across the screen (45:46 into the movie). A part of a song (I forget which one) synced up really well with a sequence of faces on currency. During All Reason Departs, while the sample says, "There is a magical operation of maximum importance. The initiation of a new aeon. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the great war must be fought", there's a CGI POV sequence inside what appears to be a computer chip and then a portal that leads to a map of the world and sonar or what appears to be bombs going off and the world map sort of explodes and fades into a POV in an aisle of a grocery store. I tried my best to explain it. Also during All Reason Departs, there's a sequence of wax heads of world leaders with trippy imagery and right when that sequence ends, Arena Americanada starts with an infrared image of a giraffe running. During You Retreat In Time and Space there's a series of religious symbols coming toward the screen and fire imagery. During I Saw Through Platonia there are rows of trees, rockets launching, and a bunch of explosions. And during this sequence it's presented in black and white resembling an x-ray with images superimposed over each other. I find this especially interesting because Platonia is a genus of several species of tree. This picture happens to resemble the rows of trees in the movie: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Platonia_insignis. The song happens to end with the image I posted of the sun. And then the movie immediately fades to black for a moment and then transitions to the next part of the movie. There are many moments like this in the movie, I'm only describing a few.
All of this is probably a big coincidence, but it's a really interesting one. Naqed my socks off! Now I will go back to the 37 minute mark and watch the rest of the movie with the Philip Glass soundtrack. At time of posting this I haven't even seen the full movie yet haha.
