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Ron Fricke (born February 24, 1953) is an American film director and cinematographer specializing in time-lapse and large-format cinematography, known for his non-narrative feature films.
Fricke attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma.
After serving as director of photography for Koyaanisqatsi (1982, directed by Godfrey Reggio), Fricke directed the IMAX films Chronos (1985) and Sacred Site (1986). He became attracted to the format after watching To Fly! in Washington, D.C., while working on Koyaanisqatsi.
He directed the purely cinematic non-verbal non-narrative Baraka (1992), designing his own 65 mm camera equipment for the feature, and earning broad critical acclaim. He also designed and constructed new time-lapse mechanisms to achieve camera movement while filming at a very slow frame-rate. Fricke worked with Mark Magidson as producer and Michael Stearns as the music composer, both of whom would work with him on future projects.
His film Samsara premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011, then screened in the U.S. the following year. Fricke described the film as an evolution of his work: "Both technically and philosophically, I am ready to delve even deeper into my favorite theme: humanity's relationship to the eternal."
Fricke worked as a cinematographer for parts of the 2005 Star Wars film , shooting the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily for scenes of the volcanic planet Mustafar. He was also an early collaborator with Francis Ford Coppola on the director's multi-decade-long project, Megalopolis, in the 1980's.
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