Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
DIRECTOR WARD SERRILL AND SINGER SPRING CHENG IN ATTENDANCE Filmmaker Ward Serrill (The Heart of the Game; The Bowmakers) presents DANCING WITH THE DEAD, on Port Townsend’s Bill Porter. Porter, who goes by the pen name Red Pine, is a renowned translator of ancient Chinese poetry. He has published over thirty books, including Road to Heaven, his quest to find hermits in the Zhongnan Mountains that reignited a movement in modern China to seek enlightenment through poetry and mountain solitude. Bill is a living gateway to ancient Chinese history and culture. 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.PT1H24M2024-07-27Ward Serrill
Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation"Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation"Showtimes
July 27, 1:30 pm
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