“Samsara” is as frustrating as it is beautiful, which is saying a lot because this is a film laced with exquisite images. Director and cinematographer Ron Fricke and his producer and co-editor Mark ...

Two films new to town open some fascinating questions about the nature of non-fiction filmmaking and the ways in which First World artists and journalists confront the Third World. "Samsara" is a ...

Gorgeous and a tiny bit bubble-headed, full of ancient ruins and marvelous faces and time-lapse landscapes of crazed LA freeways in action, “Samsara” takes its title from a Sanskrit word that ...

Following their fantastic films Baraka, filmmakers Ron Fricke (who also edited the iconic Koyaanisqatsi) and Mark Magidson are back with a stunning new documentary called Samsara. Fricke says the film ...

“Samsara,” the new film from Ron Fricke, comes 20 years after the release of “Baraka.” In that film, he captured fascinating and bizarre images from around the world in hopes of revealing how ...

SAMSARA transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, SAMSARA subverts our ...

Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson’s visually sumptuous 70mm documentary “Samsara” has become Oscilloscope Laboratories’ biggest hit since its founding in February 2008. This past weekend, the documentary ...

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial ...