Koyaanisqatsi · The Grid

A viewing assignment · Godfrey Reggio · 1982

KOYAANISQATSI

The Grid · City, work, and rhythm.

The GridAbout 22 minutes14 questionsTwo-page PDF

Watch the complete The Grid film sequence using your class copy, including its city-at-night introduction and moon shot. Stop before the separate microchip/city-grid transition. Allow about 22 minutes. Questions 1–10 broadly follow the sequence; 11–14 review it. Choose one option for each multiple-choice question. Use one word from the word bank for each blank.

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City, work & movement

Word bank · Questions 2 & 5: moon / rivers / belts / clouds

01What forms bright moving lines in the city at night?

02In an early city shot, a tall building hides the
.

03How does time-lapse make traffic appear to move?

04Where do large crowds of people move?

05Rows of food move through factories on conveyor
.

06What carries people between levels in the station scenes?

07Which electronic products are assembled in a factory?

Leisure, rhythm & connections

Questions 11–14 look back over the whole sequence.

Word bank · Questions 8 & 12: forests / patterns / games / speeches

08In the arcade, people play video
.

09Which activities appear alongside scenes of factory work?

10Which vehicles are shown being built in a factory?

11What characterises much of the factory work?

12The music repeatedly returns to similar musical
.

13What visual similarity links crowds and factory products?

14How does the sequence mainly communicate ideas?