Baraka (1992) on Netflix
NR19921h 36mDocumentary
With no narration and no dialogue, images gathered in twenty-four countries show landscapes, religious rituals, human labor and city life, moving from natural wonders and prayer to industry.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb8.5/1043,499 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes84%
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Plot summary
Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred Balinese Hindu men perform kecak, the monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Baraka (1992)
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- Baraka was photographed in the 65 mm Todd-AO format, and it became the first film ever to be restored and scanned at 8K resolution.
- A specially built automated 8K film scanner ran continuously for more than three weeks to scan more than 150,000 frames, taking roughly twelve to thirteen seconds per frame and producing over thirty terabytes of image data in total.
- For Baraka, Ron Fricke struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on Koyaanisqatsi. A Todd-AO system shot the conventional frame rates, while Fricke built a special camera combining time-lapse photography with perfectly controlled movements.
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