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

Oct 27, 2023
1h 24m
★ 0.0

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

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Woody Creek Pictures

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

Cast

Bill Porter

Self / Red Pine

Bill Porter

Spring Cheng

Self

Spring Cheng

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