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Baraka
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Overview

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Director:
Ron Fricke
Writers:
Constantine Nicholas (treatment)
Genevieve Nicholas (treatment)
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Release Date:
November 1993 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | War more
Tagline:
A world beyond words.
Plot:
A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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(3 articles)
Myles of Footage: Baraka
 (From SoundOnSight. 4 June 2009, 1:46 PM, PDT)

Movies that are made for forever
 (From Roger Ebert's Blog. 2 May 2009, 4:38 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
A true GAIA experience more

Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
None
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints)
Company:
Magidson Films more

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Trivia:
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." more
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Featured in The Matrix Reloaded (2003) more

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60 out of 64 people found the following comment useful:-
A true GAIA experience, 3 May 1999
Author: jcnteach from Gothenburg, Sweden

When I first experienced (that's the most striking word for it) this movie at the Gothenburg Film Festival 1994, I was truly amazed. Never before - or since - have I had such an over all explain-it-all feeling after a show.

Ron Fricke has made a documentary about the World today for a day: starting at dawn with monkeys in hot springs in Japan, and the morning rituals of various religions. This is followed by the awakening of the human race, both in the big cities and on the country side. Brilliantly edited together follows every aspect of human daily life combined with the general changes of the planet itself and all the ecological systems upon it.

The over all glue of the story are the various religious rituals. Maybe this is my personal interpretation, being a teacher of Religion, but the only time giver, except for the turning of the sun, are the praying times and times of worship peoples practice around the globe.

My comparison of the film to the GAIA idea (that the Earth as a whole being a unit, a living organism) is detectable both in the way every different cultures shown are found to be very similar to one another, as well as the speeded up people at side walks and zebra crossings look very much like the stream of blood in the veins of an organism.

All in all this is a marvellous movie pointing out both the uniqueness of the individual and the unity with all people. Go see it - now!

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