🎬 Documentary

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

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

2023 1h 24m Dir. Ward Serrill

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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.

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Year
2023
Runtime
1h 24m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Language
EN
Budget
$0.6M

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Ward Serrill 👤 Bill Porter 👤 Spring Cheng
translation chinese poetry

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Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation has a runtime of 1h 24m (1 hour and 24 minutes).
Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation was directed by Ward Serrill and released in 2023.
Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation is a Documentary film (2023).
The cast of Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation includes Bill Porter, Spring Cheng.

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