Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1982), score by Philip Glass, defines the title on screen: life out of balance, a state of life calling for another way of living. Reggio consulted Hopi speakers; the closing frames invoke Hopi prophecies including the digging up of the world's treasures. The film is preserved in the National Film Registry.
Linguists and Hopi commentators note koyaanisqatsi is closer to corrupted life or chaotic life, a moral state, not the ecological slogan the poster made it. The word was adopted by environmentalism; the grammar was left at the theater.
The deeper point the dispute proves: some words are units of a whole worldview, and exporting the word without the world produces slogans. Koyaanisqatsi the film is about exactly this, modernity extracting pattern from living context, and the title became its own exhibit.
Can a word diagnose a civilization, or does the civilization hear what it wants?