Baraka (film)

Baraka is a 1992 nonnarrative documentary film directed by Ron Fricke. The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio for which Fricke was cinematographer. Baraka was the first film in over twenty years to be photographed in the 70mm ToddAO format, and the first film ever to be restored and scanned at 8K resolution.

The film is Ron Frickes followup to Godfrey Reggios similar nonverbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggios film, and for Baraka he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on Koyaanisqatsi. Shot in 70mm, it includes a mixture of photographic styles including slow motion and timelapse. To execute the films timelapse sequences, Fricke had a special camera built that combined timelapse photography with perfectly controlled movements.Locations featured include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Ryoan temple in Kyoto, Lake Natron in Tanzania, burning oil fields in Kuwait, the smouldering precipice of an active volcano, a busy subway terminal, tribal celebrations of the Masai in Kenya, and chanting monks in the Dip Tse Chok Ling monastery. ........

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