Sometimes films that seem to say nothing end up saying just about everything that’s worth putting in words. Or, in the case of the 1992 film “Baraka,” everything that’s worth putting in images ...
Hartford’s Cinestudio continues its annual holiday tradition of presenting “Baraka,” the 1992 visual symphony directed and photographed by Ron Fricke. “Getting together with friends and family to ...
Director, editor and cinematographer Ron Fricke’s Baraka (1992) can be a hard film to adequately describe to those unfamiliar with its basic concept and execution. When trying to give friends who have ...
Ron Fricke’s 1992 work “Baraka” is showing for the first time in its original 70mm format, which heightens the movie’s poetic grandeur while magnifying its structural and conceptual weaknesses. The ...
“Baraka” is about humans and our environs. In 1992, with the Cold War over and the environmental movement entering a new phase, it allowed us to step back to measure the Earth’s collective pulse.