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Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
Ward Serrill

Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation

  • Documentary

A master of ancient Chinese poetry and the search for a lost tradition

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RELEASE

2023-10-27

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$0.6M

LENGTH

84 min

Description

The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to materialism and went off to live in monasteries and mountains in Taiwan. He pursued a fascination with Buddhism and poetry and traveled to remote regions of China to rediscover an ancient tradition of mountain hermits vital to Chinese culture.