Ron Fricke starts his career as head cameraman on the Qatsi trilogy directed by Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi, Naqoyqatsi and Powaqatsi). In 1985, he directs Chronos, a short documentary shot with the Imax/Omnimax system. With Baraka (1992), he gains international fame. Gone to Tanzania, China, Brazil, Japan, Koweit, Cambodia, Iran and in Nepal, Fricke brings back astonishing images, celebrating the world, in its sweet horror and shocking beauty. If Baudelaire had lived during the last century, he would undoubtedly have orchestrated this poetic odyssey, stunning from the first to the final scenes, on the Roman and Greek ruins, that seem to be wrapping over us, raising questions about the meaning of a civilization. After doing a few shots (has director of photography) for Star Wars - Episode III : Revenge Of The Sith (2005), Ron Fricke orchestrates Samsara, twenty years after the release of Baraka: a new meteor, confirming that epiphany through cinema exists, in the form of pancosmic, objective, scattered beauty. In each film, Ron Fricke lets us touch the incredible presence of the things in Life that both devastate, overwhelm, and carry us. A form of sublime, sending the humanity back to its condition, to call and nourish him with its eternity.
