 |
| http://barakasamsara.com/ |
I'm a sucker for gorgeous pictorial movies, though I prefer visual content over pointlessly pretentious art-house flicks that play with the audience's senses of boredom or horror, like Eraserhead* or Koyaanisqatsi*. There's not enough pot, booze, or combined substances on the planet to make those movies palatable to me. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
You know by now that I have a bent for human spirituality, with their common universal themes of faith and enduring hope. This movie has our glorious, colorful world at it's best and worst, typically with a juxtaposition of natural formations and sacred spaces versus man made machinations of failure.The directors do a beautiful job linking together modern alienation with a brutally cruel factory farming system (that's rough but necessary, how we mercilessly slaughter living creatures for our consumption), veal pen office environments that strip us of choice and humanity by creating a false sense of lonesomeness and territoriality, sexual loneliness coupled with a crippling angst, expressed in sad, slow images of dehumanized sex workers grinding en masse followed by clips of rows of blow up dolls for simulated copulation in a world that's overabundant with our species; these harmful, wasteful things that take us farther away from the cleansing beauty of water and light than we should be. We need to remove this horrible distance to reclaim a world that's ours by birthright.
It's old school film making; just a few artists with a real 60mm film camera, traveling the world in a quest to capture who we are, with no compromises or shortcuts. Check it out, and be riveted.
