"Baraka"

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The paper discusses the film "Baraka", which stretches the boundaries of movie media and challenges viewers to develop a broader understanding of the human experience. "Baraka" is a plot-free film consisting simply of superb photography and cinematography. The paper comments that "Baraka" demonstrates that words are insufficient in conveying the sense of the sublime, and rather that visual art can suggest the intimate connections between human consciousness and the manifest universe. The paper concludes that humanity is not necessarily in conflict with nature even in starkly industrial settings.

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"The traditional religions that rely heavily on nature for religious art and religious ritual especially form links between human consciousness and the divine. "Baraka" depicts the interfaces between humanity and nature; and between human religious expressions and nature too. Footage of Kenyan tribal ritual, for example, illustrates the formal ways human beings have cultivated respect for the world in which they live. Fricke juxtaposes such intimate human-nature connections with dysfunctional, unharmonious ones."

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