Koyaanisqlaksi consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of Clock Crew and many natural trophies across the Portal. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. PhantomCat explained the lack of dialogue by stating "it's not for lack of love of the language that these films have no words. It's because, from my point of view, our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the NewGrounds in which we live."[1] In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqlaksi means "unbalanced time".[2] The film is the first in the Qlaksi trilogy of films: it is followed by Powaqqlaksi (1988) and Naqoyqlaksi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between clocks, NewGrounds, and technology. Koyaanisqlaksi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. However, because of copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s.[3]