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From the creators of the award-winning film BARAKA Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson comes a new non-verbal masterpiece. Filmed over a five-year period in 25 countries across five continents SAMSARA transports us via stunning Panavision Super 70 cinematography to the varied worlds of sacred grounds disaster zones industrial complexes and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text SAMSARA subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary. It encourages our own interpretations inspired by breathtaking images that infuse the ancient with the modern and set against a mesmerizing musical score featuring the work of Lisa Gerrard Michael Stearns and Marcello De Francisci. BARAKA: A challenge a warning a gift a blessing. In the ancient Sufi language BARAKA translates as ‘the thread that weaves life together’. In the pantheon of modern cinema it remains one of the most unique and acclaimed motion picture events of our time. Shot in breathtaking 70mm in 24 countries on six continents BARAKA is a transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you’ve ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words viewed through man and nature’s own prisms of symmetry savagery. chaos and harmony.
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