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film: baraka

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BoogieCy

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Baraka!

excellent.

anyone seen any of the other ones in this series? i'm fairly sure that baraka is the best one...good high, trippin, e, whatever...excellent movie.

esp if you can watch it big screen so you can take advantage of that 70mm.

if you haven't seen it, it's a ridiculously beautiful documentary about earth and culture and religion. no dialogue...just underlying currents of humanity exposed in jaw dropping 70mm.
 
I usually watch this movie sober, it's pretty amazing on its own. In fact, the soundtrack is incredible too. "Host of Seraphim" by Dead Can Dance is probably my favorite track on there....damn that girl can sing!

If you like this movie, be sure to check out the Qatsi trilogy (Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi / Naqoyqatsi) if you haven't already. They are just as epic, have excellent music, and have an incredible selection of footage spanning around 40 years or so. It's not in 70mm but the editors have really outdone themselves, especially in Naqoyqatsi.
 
yeh agree on the soundtrack.
seriosuly awesome movie, more people should have seen this.
 
i had this in my hand today, but then i was good and put it down because i have way too much uni work to do at the moment.

it looks amazing though.
 
^^^ you'd love it. my favourite part is with the massive group of people all chanting that song thing, with those guys waving their arms around.

wow, that makes it sounds so insignificant, but it's a truly amazing thing to watch.
 
Originally posted by onetwothreefour
my favourite part is with the massive group of people all chanting that song thing, with those guys waving their arms around.

the last time i attended burning man (2002) i was in center camp one day and there were a group of guys doing a ded-on reproduction of this. it is amazing. the look on the face of the guy leading the chant is just priceless.

the first time i saw baraka was in the haymarket odeon in london. the theatre was pretty much empty and i was tripping on acid. it was a moving experience. i've since seen it many times - straight and high - and it's always very moving.

alasdair
 
Baraka is an incredible and wholly unique film. I saw it in my university visual communication class. Very stylish; it doesn't even need dialogue to communicate a wide range of feelings and emotions.
 
that movie is amazing, the first time i saw it i was high as shit! and then i watched it a few times after, i have seen the first qatsi movie Koyaanisqatsi i didnt think it was as good as baraka.

my fav bit is where the guy is walking down that street chiming the bell, it is just so intense, so much focus on such a seemingly meaningless action. this movie is a masterpiece.
 
Baraka is an amazing film. The technical aspects of it are truly amazing, it's some of the most beautiful craftwork I've ever seen. I agree with all the other comments made about it's reflections on life and spirituality, that beign said, I think that the technical aspects of the film shine bright.
 
Koyannisquattsi (SP?) is very similar and the same people worked on it but the music is better (Phillip Glass's best...)
 
http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/baraka.aspx

This huge site will give you some more info/inkling , but, lovingly... its only a fraction of the enormity. I was going to link some of the pictures from that site here, but because there is more than 100 of profound pictures there just on the front page, I was not sure what to choose apart from maybe the dvd cover picture;

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I highly recommend this movie to everyone.

PROFOUND!

It was the first DVD I bought.

Baraka is part of a series or genre
There is also:
Koyaanisqatsi
Chronos
Samsara
Powaqqatsi
Naqoyqatsi
Anima Mundi
Microcosmos
Winged Migration
Timescape
Other Films;
True North
EarthScapes
(not in chronological order.)

BARAKA has wonderfully changed my life into a much more beautiful experience.

Peace be with you.
:)
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Was going to start a thread on this one but I found this. Baraka is the only film that made me cry.
 
Guaranteed to stimulate awe in anyone who gives it open eyes, conveys very strongly a sense of the spiritual impulse existing within the earth. One of my all time favorites.
 
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