baraka

my roommate is doing a paper on non-verbal documentaries, and i thought the fine readers of my blog would like to hear about that genre. it's a cool one. theres a lot of time lapse in these movies, along with footage of landscapes, ruins, aboriginal cultures, and animals. The footage of all the scenes from around the world puts together an abstracted narrative as the film goes on, connecting themes but never with words, only with images and emotion. it's pretty cool. would recommend checking out. here's a cool scene from it: