Bill Porter Movies
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...