And while digital capture wasn't quite up to Fricke and Magidson's high visual standards while filming Samsara ... It's an approach to editing that Ron really likes. Ron doesn't like dissolves.

Samsara isn’t a film with a conventional narrative, but it conveys a very emotional story on a gut level. What’s the creative process behind building a project like this? Ron Fricke ...

Fricke also noted that the Mandala sand paintings that open and close the movie were a relief, giving “Samsara” a solid through-line. “Once we got that, we knew we had the book-end ...

Achingly beautiful and visually transfixing, Samsara offers a transporting vacation from the usual multiplex fare. It’s a movie to get lost in. Director: Ron Fricke. Screenwriters: Ron Fricke ...

Film review: Time lapse photography master Ron Fricke goes on a spiritual journey exploring the wonders of the world in Samsara. Samsara is a non-narrative film directed by cinematographer Ron ...

Director and cinematographer Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson are ... Added with your past two films, “Samsara” is your third time producing this sort of visual global journey.

and “Baraka” (1992), directed by “Samsara” helmsman Ron Fricke (also a key collaborator on “Koyaanisqatsi”). Fricke and his producer/co-editor/co-writer Mark Magidson continue what ...

Buddhist monks paint a sand mandala in "Samsara." Oscilloscope photo Thirty ... Glass and the time-lapse imagery of cinematographer Ron Fricke. Fricke then embarked on similar films of his own ...

Samsara's tone is curiously detached and serene. No commentary is offered and none is needed. Fricke dwells tenderly on calm, immobile faces: an African tribesman, a pair of lovers, a hideously ...

Chalk up another victory for the documentary. “Samsara,” the new film from director Ron Fricke, begins its national tour of sorts on Friday with a solid string of advance reviews. Even against ...