Baraka (1992)
Baraka is a movie that came out in 1992. It’s not like other movies because it doesn’t tell a story with words. Instead, it shows us pictures and music that make us feel things. The man who made the movie, Ron Fricke, also worked on another movie like this called Koyaanisqatsi.
The movie Baraka was made by taking pictures in 24 different countries. It took 14 months to do this. That’s more than a year! The pictures show many things – like nature, cities, and people from all over the world. The movie helps us see how everything is connected.
Now, let’s talk about how they made Baraka. They used a special camera called Todd-AO. This camera is very good at taking clear pictures. And guess what? Baraka was the first movie to use a new way to make the pictures even clearer. They used something called 8K resolution. It’s like making the pictures so clear that you can see every little detail.
The movie has many different kinds of pictures. Some are slow, and some move very fast. This is done by using time-lapse. Time-lapse is when you take pictures of something for a long time and then show them quickly. It makes things that move slowly look like they are moving fast.
In Baraka, you can see places like a big church in Jerusalem and a temple in Kyoto, Japan. There are also pictures of a lake in Tanzania and oil fields burning in Kuwait. The movie shows us both beautiful things and things that make us think about the world.
One cool thing about Baraka is that it doesn’t need words to tell us something important. It shows us how people live, celebrate, and even how they are the same in some ways. For example, it shows a man with a tattoo in Japan and then shows people with paint on their bodies in a tribe. This makes us think about how people are different but also the same.
After Baraka came out, they made it even better. In 2007, they took the original movie and used a big computer to make the pictures super clear. This took a lot of work and time. But in the end, they made a new version that looks amazing on TVs and computers.
So, Baraka is a special movie because it shows us the world in a way that makes us think and feel. It’s like a trip around the world that you can take from your home. And it reminds us that our world is full of amazing things. Isn’t that cool?
