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This is not a documentary in the traditional sense; there is no narrator, no dialogue, no plot. It is a guided meditation using 70mm film stock. From the sacred temples of Burma to the robotic assembly lines of a chicken processing plant, from the trance dance of a Sufi whirling dervish to the unsettling sculpted faces of a wax museum, Samsara explores the intersection of the divine, the profane, the industrial, and the natural.

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For the uninitiated, this looks like a jumble of codecs, resolutions, and group tags. For the initiated—the videophiles, the projectionists, the ambient film lovers—this specific file represents the gold standard of how to experience Ron Fricke’s non-narrative masterpiece without a physical disc. This is not a documentary in the traditional