Baraka

[Mr. White]

Baraka turned 20 years old earlier this year. I found this movie on DVD probably 10 years ago and love it so very, very much. It was filmed in 70 millimeter. If you haven't ever seen it, please take the time to watch it all the way through sometime. If you don't buy it to watch on a nice TV with a proper stereo system, then sit glued to your computer and use your best headphones. This documentary has a little bit of everything: national parks, historic places, old buildings, old and new cultures, religious sites, people from every walk of life, nature, animals, human behavior, destruction, majesty, etc. Watch it from start to finish...please. It may just touch your heart and mind.

Baraka (full documentary)

[woodnymph]

Baraka turned 20 years old earlier this year. I found this movie on DVD probably 10 years ago and love it so very, very much. It was filmed in 70 millimeter. If you haven't ever seen it, please take the time to watch it all the way through sometime. If you don't buy it to watch on a nice TV with a proper stereo system, then sit glued to your computer and use your best headphones. This documentary has a little bit of everything: national parks, historic places, old buildings, old and new cultures, religious sites, people from every walk of life, nature, animals, human behavior, destruction, majesty, etc. Watch it from start to finish...please. It may just touch your heart and mind.

Baraka (full documentary)

Just watched this a few months ago!!!! Wtf tho, 20?!?! I uh.... well, I thought it came out much more recently    Love it, though--thanks for posting!!!

[Mr. White]

Baraka turned 20 years old earlier this year. I found this movie on DVD probably 10 years ago and love it so very, very much. It was filmed in 70 millimeter. If you haven't ever seen it, please take the time to watch it all the way through sometime. If you don't buy it to watch on a nice TV with a proper stereo system, then sit glued to your computer and use your best headphones. This documentary has a little bit of everything: national parks, historic places, old buildings, old and new cultures, religious sites, people from every walk of life, nature, animals, human behavior, destruction, majesty, etc. Watch it from start to finish...please. It may just touch your heart and mind.

Baraka (full documentary)

Just watched this a few months ago!!!! Wtf tho, 20?!?! I uh.... well, I thought it came out much more recently    Love it, though--thanks for posting!!!

No. It is 20 years old now. The scenes of the black smoke rising into the air all over the place came from when Saddam torched the oil wells in Kuwait after being driven out near the end of the Persian Gulf War back in 1991 (That was brand-new footage at that time).

[woodnymph]

Baraka turned 20 years old earlier this year. I found this movie on DVD probably 10 years ago and love it so very, very much. It was filmed in 70 millimeter. If you haven't ever seen it, please take the time to watch it all the way through sometime. If you don't buy it to watch on a nice TV with a proper stereo system, then sit glued to your computer and use your best headphones. This documentary has a little bit of everything: national parks, historic places, old buildings, old and new cultures, religious sites, people from every walk of life, nature, animals, human behavior, destruction, majesty, etc. Watch it from start to finish...please. It may just touch your heart and mind.

Baraka (full documentary)

Just watched this a few months ago!!!! Wtf tho, 20?!?! I uh.... well, I thought it came out much more recently    Love it, though--thanks for posting!!!

No. It is 20 years old now. The scenes of the black smoke rising into the air all over the place came from when Saddam torched the oil wells in Kuwait after being driven out near the end of the Persian Gulf War back in 1991 (That was brand-new footage at that time).

Oh I belived you, that was  my embarrassed face for not having known it for so long.... That footage you mention is absolutely f'ing INSANE.... so real... yet so unreal.....

[woodnymph]

The movie "Samsara" was just released by the same person, I think?? I should know the guy's name, but I'm not good with names. I've yet to see it but am intrigued.

[peafunk31]

Jeez. I thought this thread was going to be a homage to this guy



I am disappoint 

In all seriousness I need to watch this documentary. I have heard of it I just never got around to viewing it. Thanks for posting it!

[MamaKel]

Way to post on this, Mr. White.  Baraka is one of my favorite movies of all time.  It is like a visual time capsule of what it means to be alive in our time...a wordless chorus of Earthly providence that never fails to make me cry tears of joy and sorrow in the same breath...thank you for reminding me of its power.

[Haldon]

Fantastic Movie.  Saw Samsara when it came out a couple of months ago.  I liked Baraka better.  The visuals in both movies are absolutely absurd and amazing.  I thought that the "story" of the scenes flowed better in Baraka than in Samsara...both were very good though.

[Hawkeye]

Jeez. I thought this thread was going to be a homage to this guy



I am disappoint 

In all seriousness I need to watch this documentary. I have heard of it I just never got around to viewing it. Thanks for posting it!

Haha...THIS.  But I have also seen the movie.  Pretty cool and I DEFINITELY thought it was newer than 20 years old!!!!  I would have guessed it was filmed within the last 2-3 years!

[Mahgeetah34]

Jeez. I thought this thread was going to be a homage to this guy



I am disappoint 

In all seriousness I need to watch this documentary. I have heard of it I just never got around to viewing it. Thanks for posting it!

Hahaha exactly what I thought too. I'm disappointed to find out this has nothing to do with the creature from Mortal Kombat.

[he.who.forgets]

by far my favorite film of it's kind.  And Samsara was amazing as well.  Saw it twice in the theatre.  Chronos is my least favorite from Fricke...makes me nausious. The other one that starts with a K (not even going to attempt to spell it from memory) is good too, but is probably my third favorite. 

[capt. scotty]

Jeez. I thought this thread was going to be a homage to this guy



I am disappoint 

In all seriousness I need to watch this documentary. I have heard of it I just never got around to viewing it. Thanks for posting it!

You and me and apparently many others both