Baraka is a musical piece, it is footage set to music from over 20 countries and 6 continents. It uses shots such as birds eye view, mid shots, extreme close ups, time laps etc...
The movie is 96 minutes and time laps is used in nature shots and in traffic in cities. In the shot above it uses mixtures of mid shot and extreme close ups.
The movie starts with different shots of nature, people and places with music playing. The rest of the movie is showing nature, people, places and how different things are in different countries. It ends with time laps in different shots of nature.Its directed by Rick Frickle. 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. They filmed for over 14 months, Locations featured include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Ryoan temple in Kyoto, Lake Natron in Tanzania, burning oil fields in Kuwait, the smouldering precipice of an active volcano, a busy subway terminal, tribal celebrations of the Masai in Kenya, and chanting monks in the Dip Tse Chok Ling.
My favorite parts where the monks doing rituals, the man in the picture above praying, and a japanese man with an almost full body tattoo. I liked the way it was filmed and edited, and the fact that it had no talking other than a few times from people who where being filmed.
~some information taken from wikipedia

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