Baraka

Baraka is cinematic poetry. It is a compliation of video montages that show a story of all kinds of different cultures in our world today. The are no central characters, no narration, nothing other than just pure film unquiely crafted letting the silent wonder of humanity take center stage. Created by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson in 1992 Baraka is untouched by digital tomfoolery (there are some shots where you are just amazed enough at the earth to ask).

I first came across this video in my antropology class at SCAD. I remember sitting there as it started and I kept waiting for something to happen, a narrater to start talking, some plot element to talk place. The way it is edited you keep feeling that some great drama is taking place. By the end of it though, I didn't want it to stop. You want to get a huge plasma screen and hang it on your wall and just play it back to back like a painting. (crazy if-i-were-rich idea #745)

<link to spirit of baraka>