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Samsara — official trailer
What is Samsara about?
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 complexes, and natural wonders.
Samsara is a 2011 American non-narrative documentary film of international imagery directed by Ron Fricke and produced by Mark Magidson, who also collaborated on Baraka (1992), a film of a similar vein, and Chronos (1985).
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Where can you watch Samsara?
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Who stars in Samsara?
Who made Samsara?
What does the cinematography of Samsara look like?
Sampled across 67 frames, the coverage of Samsara leans on establishing shots (33% of the sample) and close-ups (27%). The camera returns again and again to high angles. Cinematographer Ron Fricke keeps 54% of it in naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 61% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Samsara?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Samsara (2011) are #2f322f, #f3f3f2, #0a0a0b, #51544d, #ced1cc, #ccb48f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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