Baraka (film)

Baraka is a 1992 non-narrative documentary film directed by Ron Fricke. The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio for which Fricke was cinematographer. Baraka was the first film in over twenty years to be photographed in the 70mm Todd-AO format, and the first film ever to be restored and scanned at 8K resolution.

Content

Baraka is a documentary film with no narrative or voice-over. It explores themes via a kaleidoscopic compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period.

The film is Ron Fricke’s follow-up to Godfrey Reggio’s similar non-verbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio’s film, and for Baraka he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on Koyaanisqatsi. Shot in 70mm, it includes a mixture of photographic styles including slow motion and time-lapse. To execute the film’s time-lapse sequences, Fricke had a special camera built that combined time-lapse photography with perfectly controlled movements.

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Baraka

Baraka may refer to:

Berakhah or Baraka, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony

Barakah or Baraka, in Islam, the beneficent force from God that flows through the physical and spiritual spheres

Baraka, full ḥabbat al-barakah, aka Nigella sativa, a spice with purported health benefits

Media

Baraka (film), a 1992 experimental documentary film by Ron Fricke

Baraka (novel), a 1983 novel by John Ralston Saul

Baraka (Mortal Kombat), a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat series

Baraka (album), a 1997 album by DKV Trio

Places

Baraka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town in the eastern Congolese province of Sud-Kivu on Lake Tanganyika.

Baraka, Gabon, a site where American missionaries from New England established a mission in 1842 on what is now Libreville

Baraka School, an educational program in Kenya, featured in the film The Boys of Baraka

Baraka, the local nickname for Barakaldo, Spain

Baraka River, Eritrea and Sudan

Har Brakha, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestinian territories

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to the industry of films and filmmaking or to the art of filmmaking itself. The contemporary definition of cinema is the art of simulating experiences to communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty or atmosphere by the means of recorded or programmed moving images along with other sensory stimulations.