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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This soundtrack was the last thing added to the picture, which Fricke and Magidson edited as a silent. When you were making Samsara, did you piece the sequences ... One example of that is Ron and I ...

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.

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 ...