Samsara (2008 film)

"Samsara" is a large format film currently in production. [ [http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/samsara-press.aspx Press Release] ] The film is directed by experimental filmmaker Ron Fricke, and it will pose as a sequel to the highly acclaimed 1992 film "Baraka".

The word "Samsara" is a Sanskrit word that means "cyclic existence", but is used often to describe worldly activities, and in the words of Fricke, the film "will delve deeper into my favorite theme: humanity's relationship to the eternal."" [http://spiritofbaraka.com/samsara.aspx Samsara: a film by Ron Fricke, the sequel to Baraka] ". Retrieved 2007-02-17.]

Content summary

The director has proposed an outline for the two-hour film:

# Prologue: Creation. Moving from a view which encompasses an atom, the views will expand in scale, until a sand painting is shown. Using the painting as a kind of portal, the viewer will be introduced to four ancestor spirit guides.
# Act 1: Spirit taking form. This section will focus on an amorphous spirit, seeking expression. At the end of the segment, that spirit will come into form as a newborn baby.
# Act 2: Matter, one turn of the wheel. This section expands on the single birth of Act I, and explores the global cycle of birth to death, represented by the ancestor spirits of the prologue.
# Act 3: Samsara, the wheel of life. The focus of this section is the journey of the spirit after death, and the impermanence of the material world. Abandon, decay, and death will be the primary themes.
# Epilogue: Rebirth. The view will go back through the sand painting of the prologue, which will be reassembled, and the portal will be sealed.
# Denouement: Pretension This chapter emphasizes the infinite prospects of cinematic text and the interplay of the internal and external oneness with Earth Mother Gaia.

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