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.
Producer: Caleb Hammons, Julia Carnahan, Cheng-Sim Lim, Susan Pertel Jain, Cathy Teixeira, Jason Silverman, Peter Sellars
Director: Peter Sellars
Director of Photography: Nelson Yu Lik-wai