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

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

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

Release Date
2023-10-27
Runtime
1h 24m
Status
Released
Rating
N/A
Links
IMDb

Overview

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.