Ron Fricke: Baraka

I found this at Video Shift. This is just a 10 minute clip from Baraka, an amazing film with no dialogue. It's all time-lapse photography. It was directed by Ron Fricke and took place in 24 countries, with scenes from cities bustling with life to manufacturing assembly lines to (non-human) chicks on a conveyor belt (this is disturbing to me for some reason).

From Wikipedia:

Baraka's subject matter ... includes footage of various landscapes, churches, ruins, religious ceremonies, and cities thrumming with life, filmed using time-lapse photography in order to capture the great pulse of humanity as it flocks and swarms in daily activity. The film also features a number of long tracking shots through various settings, including ones through former concentration camps at Auschwitz (in Nazi occupied Poland) and Tuol Sleng (in Cambodia) turned into museums honoring their victims: over photos of the people involved, past skulls stacked in a room, to a spread of bones.

You can watch the full movie here.

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