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Baraka
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Overview

User Rating:
8.2/10   9,240 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Constantine Nicholas (treatment)
Genevieve Nicholas (treatment)
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Release Date:
November 1993 (USA) more
Genre:
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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(4 articles)
Documentaries of bliss
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:00 PM, PST)

Myles of Footage: Baraka
 (From SoundOnSight. 4 June 2009, 1:46 PM, PDT)

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Transcendant more (125 total)

Directed by
Ron Fricke 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Constantine Nicholas  treatment
Genevieve Nicholas  treatment

Produced by
Mark Magidson .... producer
Alton Walpole .... supervising producer
 
Original Music by
Michael Stearns 
 
Cinematography by
Ron Fricke 
 
Film Editing by
David Aubrey 
Ron Fricke 
Mark Magidson 
 
Sound Department
David Brownlow .... location sound recordist
David Brownlow .... sound
Matthew Iadarola .... supervising sound re-recording mixer
John Morris .... sound designer
Jennifer Myers .... foley artist
Margie O'Malley .... foley artist
Jeffrey R. Payne .... sound transfer
Joseph Piantadosi .... sound transfer
Miguel Rivera .... dialogue editor
John Rotondi .... sound engineer: Y4
Michael Semanick .... foley engineer
Tom Sherlock .... sound transfer
Steve F.B. Smith .... stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Michael Stearns .... location sound recordist
John Joseph Thomas .... sound effects editor
Eric Thompson .... foley engineer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Lee Parker .... cinematography consultant
Richard Vetter .... cinematography consultant
 
Editorial Department
David Bartholomew .... post-production consultant: 70 mm film assembly
Gay Browning .... first assistant editor
James Sheridan .... negative cutter
Christopher Kulikowski .... post-production assistant (uncredited)
 
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Kimber Hightower .... production assistant
Robin Smith .... location researcher
 

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Runtime:
96 min
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby SR (35 mm prints)
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Was filmed by a five person crew over a period of 14 months in 24 countries across 6 continents. more
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Featured in The Matrix Reloaded (2003) more
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Host of Seraphim more

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53 out of 62 people found the following review useful.
Transcendant, 24 September 1999
10/10
Author: tritisan from Mill Valley, CA

To do describe this work of art simply as a "movie" would be inaccurate and unjustified. More akin to a tone poem Baraka is.

Is this what the world would look like to a god, a being who experiences time differently than we do?

While Koyaanisqatsi effectively drilled its message, "Humans are destroying the planet!", into our hypnotized minds, Baraka lets you ponder and meditate its multiple meanings. Are humans just another part of the ecosystem, behaving as any other organism would with our capabilities? Or are we different, even alien, to this world?

10 out of 10.

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