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this body is so impermanent… (2021) [N/A]

Featuring:
Ganavya Doraiswamy, Michael Schumacher, Dongling Wang

Directed by:
Peter Sellars


Release Date:
March 17, 2021

Original Title:
this body is so impermanent…

Production Companies:
Fisher Center at Bard
UCLA Boethius Initiative

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 78

Overview from TheMovieDB

A film featuring singer Ganavya, calligrapher Wang Dongling, and dancer Michael Schumacher who during COVID lockdown, created an hour-long meditation on the visionary, radiant Vimalakirti Sutra, a Buddhist text from the first century CE. A businessman, having chosen a path of illness towards spiritual awakening, teaches the visitors at his deathbed with depth and penetration: how to face life with no illusions. The artists, across three continents and three artforms, interpret the text individually and collaboratively, sharing a story of acute pain, deep healing, and radical transformation.

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Overview from Open Movies

In the 1st year of the global spread of COVID, 3 artists on 3 continents, improvising in 3 different art forms, create a real-time, simultaneous meditation, contemplating a passage from the Vimalakirti Sutra, a 1st century Buddhist text.

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Production

Cinematography:
Nelson Yu Lik-wai

Director:
Peter Sellars

Editor:
Tim Squyres

Executive Producer:
Diane J. Malecki
Gideon Lester

Producer:
Peter Sellars
Jason Silverman
Cathy Teixeira
Julia Carnahan
Cheng-Sim Lim
Caleb Hammons
Susan Pertel Jain

Second Unit:
Eben Hoffer

Sound Designer:
Shahrokh Yadegari

Visual Effects:
Samantha Uber

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