This film is fascinating and it is something to be watched over and over again...
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A Life In Shadows
In a small hilltop hamlet in Shaanxi Province, a group of storytellers, musicians and puppet masters perform shadow puppet theater to celebrate special occasions, appease ghosts and send thanks to wish-granting spirits.
Farmers by day, these skilled artists wash their hands each night to take their place upon the stage of China’s history and heritage. But modernity lays it’s heavy hand upon this ancient art. Director Edward Burger takes us into the world of shadows with a storybook narrative and a documentary portrait of this art-form's modern-day struggle to survive. Produced by Cosmos Pictures, Canada.
Amongst White Clouds
Amongst White Clouds is a look at the lives of zealot students, gaunt ascetics and wise masters living in isolated hermitages dotting the peaks and valleys of China's Zhongnan Mountain range. One of only a few foreigners to have lived and studied with these hidden sages, Burger reveals to us their tradition, their wisdom, and the hardship and joy of their everyday lives. With both humor and compassion, these inspiring and warm-hearted characters challenge us to join them in an exploration of our own suffering and enlightenment in this modern world. Produced by Cosmos Pictures, Canada.
WATCH THE TRAILER
ALMS has been selected for the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival in San Francisco this November 14-17
ALMS will screen at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting in Chicago
Festival hosted by NETPAC Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema and Deyki Foundation
A Life in Shadows
Visit the new COMMONFOLKblog. It’s a new space for ideas and images from the making of my films
AMONGST WHITE CLOUDS screening at the BUDDHIST FILM FOUNDATION festival in Hong Kong March 16-25 at the new ASIA SOCIETY HONG KONG CENTER
ALMS screening @ ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE March 16. Screenings are organized by the ASIAN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SERVICE
"Burger has proven his ability to capture the heart of Chinese Buddhist practice and offer detailed and beautiful accounts of daily existence within this tradition."
Michael Walsh, Vassar University
Paul Zetter and I worked with UNICEF and partners in Quang Binh on an exciting participatory video project with youth from that area. I filmed Paul’s workshop where he taught team-building and basic documentary filmmaking to youths ages 14 - 17. See the video I helped them edit from their footage here:
SEA CHANGE VIDEO
© 2012 E.A. Burger
COMMONFOLK films
link: http://www.commonfolkfilms.com/HOME.html
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A Life In Shadows
In a small hilltop hamlet in Shaanxi Province, a group of storytellers, musicians and puppet masters perform shadow puppet theater to celebrate special occasions, appease ghosts and send thanks to wish-granting spirits.
Farmers by day, these skilled artists wash their hands each night to take their place upon the stage of China’s history and heritage. But modernity lays it’s heavy hand upon this ancient art. Director Edward Burger takes us into the world of shadows with a storybook narrative and a documentary portrait of this art-form's modern-day struggle to survive. Produced by Cosmos Pictures, Canada.
Amongst White Clouds
Amongst White Clouds is a look at the lives of zealot students, gaunt ascetics and wise masters living in isolated hermitages dotting the peaks and valleys of China's Zhongnan Mountain range. One of only a few foreigners to have lived and studied with these hidden sages, Burger reveals to us their tradition, their wisdom, and the hardship and joy of their everyday lives. With both humor and compassion, these inspiring and warm-hearted characters challenge us to join them in an exploration of our own suffering and enlightenment in this modern world. Produced by Cosmos Pictures, Canada.
WATCH THE TRAILER
ALMS has been selected for the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival in San Francisco this November 14-17
ALMS will screen at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting in Chicago
Festival hosted by NETPAC Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema and Deyki Foundation
A Life in Shadows
Visit the new COMMONFOLKblog. It’s a new space for ideas and images from the making of my films
AMONGST WHITE CLOUDS screening at the BUDDHIST FILM FOUNDATION festival in Hong Kong March 16-25 at the new ASIA SOCIETY HONG KONG CENTER
ALMS screening @ ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE March 16. Screenings are organized by the ASIAN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SERVICE
"Burger has proven his ability to capture the heart of Chinese Buddhist practice and offer detailed and beautiful accounts of daily existence within this tradition."
Michael Walsh, Vassar University
Paul Zetter and I worked with UNICEF and partners in Quang Binh on an exciting participatory video project with youth from that area. I filmed Paul’s workshop where he taught team-building and basic documentary filmmaking to youths ages 14 - 17. See the video I helped them edit from their footage here:
SEA CHANGE VIDEO
© 2012 E.A. Burger
COMMONFOLK films
link: http://www.commonfolkfilms.com/HOME.html
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