Breathing City Manufactures Chicken

[@ConorOCeallaigh]

Baraka, one of the best films I've ever seen.

[@pineapplebaron2308]

Easily one of the best things ever committed to film.

[@richard345]

I was.watching this one night many years ago, circa 1997 with no sound. I was listening to Frank Zappa cd's at the time while watching and I noticed when it got to the song, "Put a Motor in Yourself" it was in sync with the what I was watching! The time lapsed photography made human life look mechanical. I decided to over dub the audio with the Frank Zappa track. I was working at a campus facility with media 100 editing suite. I titled it "mechanization" and presented it to the Sociology dept and used it as example of my work for an internship in a quite unique multimedia program at the university I graduated in 1999. Phenomenal Film btw

[@matthew-emerson-cadmer-7409]

Ron Fricke is heavily underrated, just like Phillip Glass and Godfrey Reggio.

[@kwtwk]

The film was photographed over 14 months by director Ron Fricke, who invented a time-lapse camera system to use for it. In 1992, it was the first film since 1970 to be photographed in Todd-AO, a 65mm system

[@JohnDoe-uk6si]

Reggio called him a modern American genius on a couple occasions

[@maximilianweling477]

The video quality is insane for 1992. Looks like a modern day movie

[@youbian]

Film lasts

[@ClaylandStudios]

70 MM film baby

[@AlexandreLaprise]

you mean it looks so much better than a 21st century movie!

[@lordraptor8414]

The irony here is that modern man lives kinda like the chickens in this video- wings clipped, marked from birth, "de-fanged", de-humanized and living wall to wall next to others who are stuck in the same situation. So sad.

[@benmartin9677]

Your 100 percent correct that's the point of this video. Also our sympathy for the chickens but indifference to the humans. It also question humanities complete domination of nature.

[@flare8197]

No we don't lol

[@Ninja_Squirtle]

The chickens are treated worst than slaves - you can compare their existence to concentration camp, but not to the situation of everyday-life

[@smolcutie1773]

​@@flare8197 You know that research shows that the average modern day human works more and has less free time than a medieval farmer?

[@smolcutie1773]

​@@Ninja_SquirtleYou know that research shows that the average modern day human works more and has less free time than a medieval peasant? The more we "progress" the faster our lifestyle becomes, it's a fact, with the way we're going in a few decades our lives will resemble that of ancient slaves. But because we have "democracy" and "freedom of speech" we don't see ourselves as trapped. Here's a quote from Aldous Huxley that describes it perfectly "The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes. "

[@lofiluz]

Nuestra "calidad de vida" .

[@Claudiual2lea]

thank you very much for this upload, i was looking just for this part and you have good quality. keep up the good work!

[@DoctorDrMd]

Sounds like the Akira theme

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

I literally watched Baraka the day before watching Akira

[@hapilydamaged]

being a baby chicken looks like a lot of fun up until about 08:30 or so

[@boululu1]

Ripped straight from the DVD i see...

[@johnboi8873]

The little bits of paper at 8:17 kind of look like birdseed.

[@boululu1]

Same here... 😅

[@ashishpachauri3590]

is this from samsara?

[@scarletyoung_]

It’s from ‘Baraka’ by the same director

[@jeffersonVieiraMargutti]

Name of song,please.

[@JohnChant0045]

'African journey'

[@josieb.5157]

Modern day slavery!

[@JohnDoe-uk6si]

Life itself is a form of slavery , and there's too many of us to live without systems , feel free to start a commune