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©2008
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2 videodiscs (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Original film released in 1992
Disc 1 : Nepal morning -- Meditation -- Balinese "Monkey" chant (Kecak) -- Volcanoes / Organics -- Body adornment -- Dance -- Water journey -- Destruction -- Brazil favela / Cigarette factory -- Subway riders / Monk with bell -- City and manufacturing -- Chickens -- Calcutta foragers / Homeless -- Street travelers / Buto dance -- War / Oil fires -- Steel workers / Death camps -- Tiananmen Square / Stone figures -- Varanasi sunrise -- Eclipse / Sacred journey -- Rotating starfields
"[A] transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you've ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a world without words, viewed through man and nature's own prisms of symmetry, savagery, chaos and harmony." - Container
Feature title from disc menu
Disc 2 : Bonus features: Baraka: a closer look (Produced by Funhouse Entertainment on behalf of MPI Media Group ; Producer/director, David Gregory ; 76 min. ; 2008) ; Restoration (MPI Media Group ; Funhouse Entertainment ; 7 min. ; 2008)
"First of its kind 8K scan from fully restored 70mm film." - Container
Edited by Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson, David E. Aubrey ; music direction and original music by Michael Stearns
DVD ; Region 1; NTSC; 5.1 Dolby Digital ; 5.1 DTS 96/24 ; 16:9 letterbox ; aspect ratio, 2.21:1; 8K ultradigital HD