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"Samsara" an outline of the project
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This article first appeared in
..in 70mm
The 70mm Newsletter |
Written by:
Ron Fricke |
Issue 39 - June 1995 |
1. PROLOGUE: CREATION
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This section opens in ambiguous space. The
perspective shrinks and expands unpredictably. We see atoms, molecules,
cells, amoebas, volcanos, fire, wind etc. Many of these images are in
time-lapse sequences. Out of the dark, we perceive gigantic particles
falling in slow motion. As the camera moves back, we realize that they are
granules of sand. The camera continues to retreat, revealing a pair of
delicate fingertips and then a hand releasing the sand a few particles at a
time. We find ourselves looking down on the figure of a monk who is putting
the finishing touches on a sand painting mandala. As the camera descends
toward the mandala, the sand begins to smear out from the center and blown
away. The camera goes through the opening as if stepping through the door.
We emerge in the interior of a Kiva with a shaft of light rotating slowly as
the sun moves. With each revolution, the light reveals an ancestor spirit of
a different "tribe"; one Native American, one Asian, one African
and one European. These guides reappear throughout the film. |
Further
in 70mm reading:
"Samsara"
the film
"Samsara" - in Panavision Super 70 / System 65
Ron
Fricke
"Baraka"
in a Swim Bath
"Baraka"
book
Internet link:
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2. ACT 1: SPIRIT TAKING FORM
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The spirit or energy behind the camera is
seeking form. It journeys through underwater kelp forests, caves, narrow
canyons, night skies. There is a sense that we are moving toward something
but we don't know what. At the end of this sequence spirit bursts suddenly
into form as we allow a baby into the world, preferably an underwater birth.
The infant floats weightlessly through the water like a voyager in outer
space.
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3.
ACT 2: MATTER, ONE TURN OF THE WHEEL.
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From an intimate view of one soul,
we expand to encompass humanity. The theme music erupts in a joyous chorus
of voices as we see babies being born under all circumstances from high-tech
to no-tech, all over the world. There are healthy babies, premies, still
births. We follow the cycle of life from birth to death focusing on four
people, modern representatives of ancestor spirits, and experiences the
diversity of their rituals and routines. Many of these shots are 24 frame
and slow motion. At the end of the life cycle we see people of all ages
nearing death from many different causes. We follow the last moments of an
AIDS patient and the camera spirals up from his dead body like a spirit
taking leave from the flesh.
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4. ACT 3: SAMSARA, THE WHEEL OF LIFE
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We are on the journey of the Spirit
after death. The emphasis here is on the impermanence of the material world.
We see abandoned landscapes. decaying remnants of the technology of death,
such as the skeleton of a WWII bomber under the sea, and archaeological
ruins. The absurdity of humankind's quest to accumulate possesions and
power becomes obvious. Spirit must confront the consequences of its pass
through human life and comes to terms with it. There are time-lapse double
passes of night to day and day to night that create a sense of the world
spinning continually through space. At the end, the cycles accelerate until
they appear to be still. We sense the return of the presence (Spirit) from
Act 1.
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5. EPILOGUE: REBIRTH
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The theme music from Act 2 resurfaces. The film
returns to organic imagery as spirit music returns to matter in manifold
forms: plants, animals and human. Finally, we are sucked back through the
opening in the mandala, which reassembles, sealing the door behind us.
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