Baraka

[agni]

Hey das volk !

Have you seen movie called "Baraka" (1992), I find it pretty cool. I find it quite indescribable. Sad. Touching. Reflective of human suffering. Just seems like a silent display that in a way humans are connected.

 

[loreta]

Yes, I saw this movie many times, specially when I need to connect with humanity, with others cultures, with life. This movie is beautiful and very hard. It is a magnificent look about our planet earth. About sufferance and about joy, also. And about connection. About gods, nature, war, religion, ecology, about animals, mountains, people, about the human condition, economy, money, about how fragile we are and how strong we are, also. A master piece!

 

[Sofia]

It is amazing!

Looking forward to see Samsara (Ron Fricke's sequel to Baraka)

 

[hiker]

Thank you for the recommendations. An excellent documentary, put together in a peculiar way with no narration or story as such, just a ”stream of consciousness” of different images and occasions. It was intriguing to try to place the scenes, where they might be taking place. (On a side note, it was shocking to see the material of factory farming of chickens, with the footage showing the chicks being processed. Total opposite of free range!)

Documentary-wise, I would like to recommend ”Happy people: A year in the Taiga”, which I came upon recently. A really fascinating look at life in a small village in the Siberian taiga. The film was co-directed and produced by Werner Herzog and as his other documentary output, it is of excellent quality.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions. The expressive pictures are accompanied by original sound bites quoting the villagers.

The documentary focuses on trappers spending the winter in the wild, and returning with the catch towards the spring. Interesting stuff, to see how they cope in the most unforgiving winter conditions.

On a personal note, being interested in skiing and preferring to do the ”off-road” cross country variation, I was particularly fascinated by their way of manufacturing skis. Would love to test them

Trailer for the film:
http://www.docnyc.net/film/happy-people-a-year-in-the-taiga/