Have you watched Baraka?

H

hatter

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No?

I knew it. Honestly, I don't expect that anyone here has watched it. It is a documentary released (of course not a wide release) in 1992 and since then has been screened across the world at various film festivals or events. I first watched it in 2004 at a special screening. Later, I tried looking for it in stores but could not find it. Gradually I forgot but images from the film remained with me.

Recently I watched it again, got the same goose bumps, and I thought I should share it with you. This is one movie that I think everybody should watch because, as Roger Ebert - an American film critic - puts it, the film is "Baraka is paced so we can contemplate the places we will never go, the places we are destroying, the places where we might find renewal."







From Wikipedia:
The movie was filmed at 152 locations of 24 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Nepal, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States. It contains no dialogue. Instead of a story or plot, the film uses themes to present new perspectives and evoke emotion purely through cinema.
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In my eyes, it succeeds amazingly well.
If man sends another Voyager to the distant stars and it can carry only one film on board, that film might be "Baraka." It uses no language, so needs no translation. It speaks in magnificent images, natural sounds, and music both composed and discovered. It regards our planet and the life upon it. It stands outside of historical time. To another race, it would communicate: This is what you would see if you came here,'' says Roger Ebert
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Recently the film was released on Blue Ray. Try and get it and watch it. Preferably in HD. The total length is 97 minutes. Best way to watch it will be in night when house/room is silent, you are relaxed and are sure that you will be able to watch the movie in one sitting.

Once you finish it, come back to this thread and share what you think about the film.

:)
 
Saw bits of it. Seems to be similar to Ashes and Snow. Too much slow motion and too little Rajani to make up for it. Never gonna watch it full.
 
morgoth said:
No?

I knew it. Honestly, I don't expect that anyone here has watched it.
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Watched it along ago. You have no idea how big a movie buff I am.

Also watch Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi and Tarsem Singh's The Fall and The Cell.
 
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