Mark Magidson
Mark Magidson is the producer, co-editor, co-writer on Samsara, Baraka and Chronos.
In the broad landscape of independent film production Mark has emerged as a unique filmmaker who has undertaken artistic projects that are epic in scale, entail great technical complexity and innovation, and transcend an ordinary view of the world.
An inventor and industrial designer with a diverse technical background, and equally comfortable in both creative and producing roles, Mark is a hands on filmmaker who is deeply involved in all aspects of his projects, including concept development, production management, editing, and scoring. In the course of the last 20+ years he has taken crews to over 50 countries in search of profound and one of a kind imagery.
As co-Producer of the IMAX film Chronos (1985) (Grand Prix du Jury Award at the first Festival International du Film Omnimax de Paris, 1987) he pioneered a conversion of the film to the new 870 format that expanded its availability beyond the IMAX theater group, a protocol that was later widely emulated.
After the completion of Chronos, Mark, with Director Ron Fricke, began developing the 70mm feature project that was to become Baraka (1992) which he produced, co-write, and co-edited. Three years and 24 countries in the making, the film won numerous awards including the FIPRESCI (International critics) Award for Best Picture at the Montreal World Film Festival. Mark also received a nomination for Best Documentary Editing from the A.C.E.
In 1995 he produced and directed Toward the Within, a theatrically released feature length documentary about the world music group Dead Can Dance and singer/composer Lisa Gerrard. Lisa is one of the composers on Samsara.
For the Baraka Blu-ray he pioneered a first of its kind film to digital scanning process. The resulting Blu-ray was described by critic Roger Ebert as “the finest video-disc I have ever viewed or ever imagined” and “by itself sufficient reason to acquire a Blu-ray player”.
SpiritOfBaraka is brought to you by Darren Lambert. A huge fan of the these films.
Hai...Mark I hav seen BARAKA.Its a beautiful work.I love it.
Amazing work!! I like that.
Hi Mark,
I loved your work in "BARAKA". I have seen lots of documentary film but your one is outstanding its incomparable with others.
hi there,
loved your work, I am from India in the Movie industry for the last 20 years.I want to use your footage from Baraka... Do let me know as to how do we go about it...would be wonderful if you can get in touch..
Take care and warm regards,
Prashanth.
Where can we purchase Mark Magidson film DVD's? What good is it to talk about 70mm film when nobody can buy it anymore?
You can get most of the films via Amazon.com
How can we purchase Mark Magidson DVDs? Google isn't helping.
Hi Mark,
We are looking to buy some footage for a documentary, we would like to license some Baraka footage...Is it available..
Please contact us,
Olga Arana
213-925-1761
Trying to make contact with Mark Magidson, UCSB friend. With Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Social Medicine living and working in Brazil some 20 years. In California (my mother's house 408-252-441) on my way to Boston for one year to write a book on Anthropology / infant mortality and traditional medicine. Would love to hear from MARK. Thanks
In your press release about the upcoming movie entitled "Samsara", you said that Samsara was a Tibetan word; actually this is not a Tibetan work, but Sanskrit.
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