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Documentaries like Baraka

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The 3 reasons people love Baraka

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  1. You want ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film.

  2. You want a score to carry you from a temple to a factory.

  3. You like feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities.

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  • Samsara2011

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film
    • feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities

    Good for you if you want images from twenty five countries shot on seventy millimetre film.

  • Koyaanisqatsi1983

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film
    • a score to carry you from a temple to a factory

    Good for you if you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half.

  • Powaqqatsi1988

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film
    • a score to carry you from a temple to a factory
    • feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities

    Good for you if you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.

  • Heima2007

    • a score to carry you from a temple to a factory

    Good for you if you love Sigur Rós and slow, soaring music.

  • Human2015

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film
    • a score to carry you from a temple to a factory

    Good for you if you like aerial images of the Earth that hold you still.

  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey2017

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film
    • feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities

    Good for you if you like feeling small in front of billions of years.

  • For All Mankind1989

    • a score to carry you from a temple to a factory
    • feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities

    Good for you if you like seeing Earth from the Moon in real footage.

  • Into the Inferno2016

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film

    Good for you if you want eruptions and lava flows filmed up close.

  • Encounters at the End of the World2008

    • feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities

    Good for you if you like silent dives beneath the Antarctic ice.

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds2020

    • feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities

    Good for you if you like Herzog in awe before giant craters and the night sky.

  • Lessons of Darkness1992

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film
    • a score to carry you from a temple to a factory

    Good for you if you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.

  • Winged Migration2001

    • ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film
    • feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities

    Good for you if you like flying wing to wing with geese above the clouds.

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