Baraka, better than Koyaanisqatsi, feels like David Attenborough’s voice is going to echo out in voice over at any second. Explores and is about, everything. Everything. Absolutely everything. It is a mirror to the viewer and humanity.

I first discovered this film on an oil platform in the North Sea, for all of the reputation of oil workers, they are very well informed film buffs as a rule. I was given this as something to meditate before sleep to whilst on the platform. It is a beautifully shot film, perfectly moving you from tone and theme to tone and theme. Moving the filming up and down like a long musical composition.

To say it is a documentary is probably accurate, but totally plays down the films achievements.

Following previous DVD releases, in 2007 the original 65 mm negative was rescanned at 8K resolution with equipment designed specifically for Baraka at FotoKem Laboratories. The automated 8K film scanner, operating continuously, took more than three weeks to finish scanning more than 150,000 frames (taking approximately twelve to thirteen seconds to scan each frame), producing over thirty terabytes of image data in total.

Holy hell that is a technical excercise and a ducking half.