[Doc] Baraka

Subject: [Doc] Baraka Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:07 pm

Baraka
from Ron Fricke

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The most beautifull nature.. (mainly nature but not only) documentary that I have ever seen, it is amazing Smile

This is a masterpiece in my opinion

Music from Dead can dance Smile

Quote :: Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky

Quote :: Baraka was the first film in over twenty years to be photographed in the 70mm Todd-AO format, an extremely high definition wide-screen film format developed in the mid 1950s

Quote :: Baraka is an ancient Sufi word, which can be translated "as a blessing, or the breath, or the essence of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds."

Quote :: Was filmed by a three person crew over a period of 14 months in 24 countries across 6 continents