Marginal Geographies: Independent Masterworks from China
Sunday, September 25 | 2 pm
Thursday, September 29 | 8 pm
Filmed across a series of breathtaking Tibetan landscapes over the course of an entire year, Paths of the Soul follows a group of devout Buddhist villagers as they undertake a 1,200-mile pilgrimage to the capital city of Lhasa. Every few steps, the film’s non-professional actors drop to the pavement and lie on their stomachs in an extreme act of supplication. Blurring the boundary between fiction and documentary, the extraordinary Paths of the Soul is an absolutely one-of-a-kind depiction of real-world religious devotion. It is also an immensely cinematic experience: through the audio and visual language of film-art, the viewer witnesses an astonishing human experience that gains meaning through physically punishing and spiritually chastening repetition.
Director Zhang Yang 2015 China 117 minutes NR DCP
