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2 - Samsara

Director and cinematographer Ron Ficke (KoyaanisqatsiBaraka) has been hard at work on Samsara for 5 years. The entire film is shot in stunning 70mm. It is a film that relies completely on its visual impact and cinematographic juxtaposition, as there isn't any dialogue. 

Putting stunning sequences near each other creates a visual narrative, an essay that uses vision, motion, color and light as its sentences, nouns, verbs and phrases. The trailer (below) has be pretty excited for the theatrical release.​

​Samsara is the Sanskrit word for "continuous flow" but often refers to the never ending cycle of life-death-rebirth, physical and figurative, so often thought through in Hinduism and Buddhism.