{ "slug": "SCION_077_Baraka_Contemplative_Counterpoint", "version": "v2", "series": "SERIES_D_OBSERVATIONAL", "kicker": "SCION 077 \u00b7 OBSERVATIONAL & COLLECTIVE DOCUMENTARIES", "title": "Baraka \u2014 Contemplative Counterpoint Across Scales", "subtitle": "Nonverbal passage from valley fog and eclipse stars to dense urban flow and silent gaze", "scion_id": 77, "supporting_scions": [ 78, 79 ], "lineage": "Lineage: Ron Fricke, Baraka (1992)", "theorem": "Build a wordless contemplative passage that sets geological and atmospheric stillness against dense human corridors, returning to a direct human gaze that measures the viewer.", "boundary_note": "No voice-over bridges the cuts; scale contrast between valley mist (`151521f7`), starlight (`201b010b`), and street flow (`87f502b0`) leaves each source record intact.", "critic_tribunal": { "critic_role": "Independent nonverbal-counterpoint critic", "v1_verdict": "pass", "v2_verdict": "pass", "largest_gap": "Progresses from valley fog (`151521f7`) and mountain clouds (`31148e7e`) to carved figure (`83c9eac6`), dense crowd flow (`87f502b0`), identical workstations (`88b6baf2`), and direct eyes (`58d07880`).", "falsifiable_repair": "All 6 segments verified cut-free." }, "duration_seconds": 35.5, "video_file": "films/SCION_077_Baraka_Contemplative_Counterpoint.mp4", "source_count": 6, "sources_summary": [ "151521f7 \u00b7 Valley Fog (2006)", "31148e7e \u00b7 River, The (Part I) (1937)", "83c9eac6 \u00b7 [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 4) (Part I) (1939)", "87f502b0 \u00b7 The Fed Today (2001)", "88b6baf2 \u00b7 From Trees to Tribunes (Part III) (1931)", "58d07880 \u00b7 Eyes and Their Care (An Introduction), The (1941)" ], "edl": [ { "seg_idx": 1, "type": "title_card", "title": "Baraka \u2014 Contemplative Counterpoint Across Scales", "phase": "OPENING SLATE", "action": "Nonverbal passage from valley fog and eclipse stars to dense urban flow and silent gaze", "start_sec": 0.0, "end_sec": 3.0, "dur_s": 3.0 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "151521f7-95ef-59b2-b39e-18d2c7a0c37a", "source_title": "Valley Fog", "source_year": 2006, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/valley-fog-abb630c5?clip=151521f7-95ef-59b2-b39e-18d2c7a0c37a", "in_s": 0.5, "out_s": 5.7, "dur_s": 5.2, "phase": "STILLNESS I \u00b7 LOW FOG IN THE VALLEY (2006)", "action": "Valley Fog (2006): Low mist filling a valley beneath wooded hills before human activity appears", "nearmatch": "PLANETARY BREATH", "seg_idx": 2, "start_sec": 3.0, "end_sec": 8.2 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "31148e7e-1451-5f18-b4d2-ec0f0b308310", "source_title": "River, The (Part I)", "source_year": 1937, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/river-the-part-i-7ca50b37?clip=31148e7e-1451-5f18-b4d2-ec0f0b308310", "in_s": 1.0, "out_s": 6.0, "dur_s": 5.0, "phase": "STILLNESS II \u00b7 CLOUDS WRAPPING DISTANT MOUNTAINS (1937)", "action": "The River, Part I (1937): Slow cloud masses 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