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A different look at planet earth. Something for the weekend.

We try to do something a little different on a Friday, so today we showcase a few movies showing the diversity of planet earth and how we as humans interact with it. These films aren’t your run-of-the-mill documentaries, but are thought provoking visual and sound journeys giving an alternative look at humans and our home.

Three films with a different look at our planet.

 

1. Baraka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp3GCDtoygo

Baraka is a documentary film with no narrative or voice-over. It explores themes via a compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film)

 

2. Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Home is a 2009 French documentary film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(2009_film)

 

3. Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi , also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, is a 1982 American experimental film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi