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Director & Camera Ron Fricke
Script Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson
Music Marcello De Francisci, Lisa Gerrard, Michael Stearns
Producer Mark Magidson
Production Magidson Films
In Sanskrit Samsara means an eternally revolving wheel of life. This notion was the starting point for filmmakers in search of invisible threads in our lives. The film was shot during five years in 25 countries of the world. It takes us to holy lands and disaster zones, to industrial areas and sites of unusual natural phenomena. Watching the blending of the ancient and the modern presented through visual allegories, the viewer, free of the constraints of the author’s pronouncements, sets off on a journey through his own imagination, finds his own ideas, raises questions that can’t be answered unequivocally.
RON FRICKE
American film director and cinematographer, considered to be a master of time-lapse photography and large format cinematography. He was the director of photography for “Koyaanisqatsi” (1982) by Godfrey Reggio and directed the purely cinematic non-verbal non-narrative feature “Baraka” (1992). He designed and used his own 65 mm camera equipment for “Baraka” and his later projects. He also directed the IMAX films “Chronos” (1985) and “Sacred Site” (1986). His most recent work was as cinematographer for parts of the film “Star Wars. Episode III: Revenge of the Sith”. The sequel to “Baraka”, “Samsara”, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011.
