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Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation (2023)
Directed by Ward Serrill
“A master of ancient Chinese poetry and the search for a lost tradition”
Documentary · 1h 24m
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.
Cast
Bill Porter
Crew
- Director
- Ward Serrill
- Writer
- Ward Serrill, Michael McMann
- Producer
- Rocky Friedman
Details
- Release date
- 2023-10-27
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, English
- Production
- Woody Creek Pictures
- Budget
- $550,000