Movies: Bill Porter

  • 2023
    Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation

    Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation (2023)

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

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    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 ...

    Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
  • 2009
    Cold Mountain: Han Shan

    Cold Mountain: Han Shan (2009)

    Cold Mountain: Han Shan

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    In the mountains and monasteries of China, four translators and writers recount the life and work of Tang dynasty hermit poet Han Shan (Cold Mountain)....

    Cold Mountain: Han Shan
  • 2015
    Hermits

    Hermits (2015)

    Hermits

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    25 years ago, American author Bill Porter (a.k.a. Red Pine) went to the Zhongnan Mountains to seek out modern Chinese hermits. His resulting book, Road to Heaven, was a touchstone for many westerners wondering what remained of Buddhist and Daoist asc...

    Hermits
  • 1994
    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine

    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine (1994)

    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine

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    This is a documentary of a trip into the Sacred Mountains of China with Red Pine (Bill Porter) to meet Buddhist and Taoist monks and nuns who live as hermits and practice their religion. These are some of the people about whom Red Pine wrote in his b...

    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine