Crew
WS
Ward Serrill
Writer
WS
Ward Serrill
Director
MM
Michael McMann
Writer
RF
Rocky Friedman
Producer
Cast
Bill Porter
Self / Red Pine
SC
Spring Cheng
Self
Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
A master of ancient Chinese poetry and the search for a lost tradition
202384m
Documentary
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.
