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title: "Koyaanisqatsi: cast and crew"
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crew: 39
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# Koyaanisqatsi (1983): cast and crew

10 cast and 39 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Ed Asner](https://film.one/person/ed-asner.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Pat Benatar](https://film.one/person/pat-benatar.md) as Self
- [Johnny Carson](https://film.one/person/johnny-carson.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Dick Cavett](https://film.one/person/dick-cavett.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Marilyn Chambers](https://film.one/person/marilyn-chambers.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Sammy Davis Jr.](https://film.one/person/sammy-davis-jr.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Lou Dobbs](https://film.one/person/lou-dobbs.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Linda Ellerbee](https://film.one/person/linda-ellerbee.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Peter Sellers](https://film.one/person/peter-sellers.md) as Self (archive footage)
- [Thomas Dolby](https://film.one/person/thomas-dolby.md) as Self (archive footage)

## Directing

- [Godfrey Reggio](https://film.one/person/godfrey-reggio.md): Director

## Writing

- [Ron Fricke](https://film.one/person/ron-fricke.md): Screenplay
- Guy Debord: Idea
- Leopold Kohr: Idea
- Jacques Ellul: Idea
- David Monongye: Idea
- Ivan Illich: Idea
- [Michael Hoenig](https://film.one/person/michael-hoenig.md): Screenplay
- [Alton Walpole](https://film.one/person/alton-walpole.md): Screenplay
- [Godfrey Reggio](https://film.one/person/godfrey-reggio.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [Godfrey Reggio](https://film.one/person/godfrey-reggio.md): Producer
- [Francis Ford Coppola](https://film.one/person/francis-ford-coppola.md): Executive Producer
- Mel Lawrence: Associate Producer
- Roger McNew: Associate Producer
- Lawrence Taub: Associate Producer
- [Alton Walpole](https://film.one/person/alton-walpole.md): Associate Producer
- T. Michael Powers: Associate Producer

## Camera

- [Ron Fricke](https://film.one/person/ron-fricke.md): Director of Photography
- Robert Palmer: Grip
- Neil Bockman: Assistant Camera
- Christine Gibson: Additional Photography
- Hillary Harris: Additional Photography
- Wayne V. McGee: Still Photographer
- Roy Hememnez: Grip
- Roger McNew: Assistant Camera
- Mark Muich: Grip
- Louie Schwartzberg: Additional Photography
- Phillip Harrington: Still Photographer
- Karl Kernberger: Still Photographer
- Dean Alatzas: Grip
- Robert Hill: Assistant Camera
- David Brownlow: Assistant Camera

## Editing

- [Ron Fricke](https://film.one/person/ron-fricke.md): Editor
- Gary Burritt: Negative Cutter
- [Alton Walpole](https://film.one/person/alton-walpole.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Philip Glass](https://film.one/person/philip-glass.md): Original Music Composer, Music
- Steve Maslow: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Randy Thom: Sound Effects

## Art

- Paul Pascarella: Title Designer

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