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.
Peter Sellars
Director
Bedrooms and Hallways60%
Vertigo81%
Stardust Memories69%
The Human Voice67%
Little Ashes58%
Anomalisa70%
Autumn in New York61%
Play Dirty62%
Bros66%
I'm Thinking of Ending Things65%
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things71%
June and John59%
Mainstream63%
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty72%
Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland66%
Under the Silver Lake63%
Stealing Beauty66%
Beau Is Afraid67%
Love Me Love Me60%
Afterlife of the Party66%
