Ron Fricke

Ron Fricke is an American filmmaker and cinematographer, considered to be a master of time-lapse and the great cinema format. He was the cinematographer for the film Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and he led the auskommende without language and narrator cinema event Baraka (1992). He developed and used his own 70mm camera equipment for the filming of Baraka and his later projects. He has also directed the filming of the IMAX films Chronos (1985) and Sacred Site (1986). His current work as a cinematographer was for parts of the movie Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. The sequel to Baraka, Samsara, was produced in the last 20 years and came from August 2012 in the cinemas.