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

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.

Country:
Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

84 minutes

Year:

2023

Director:

Ward Serrill

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Company:

Woody Creek Pictures

Cast:
Bill Porter

Self / Red Pine

Spring Cheng

Self

Crew:
Ward Serrill

Writer

Ward Serrill

Director

Michael McMann

Writer

Rocky Friedman

Producer