15 Apr 2016
W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree
A documentary on the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer winner, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin.
Text Messages from the Universe
A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. Text Messages from the Universe is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text which guides souls on their journey of 49 days through the 'Bardo', or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth.
Top Billed Cast
Jay Bailey Dancer
Lily Bones Dancer
Andrea Briody Dancer
Sonia Camara Dancer
Bonnie Curtis Dancer
Emma Dulvey Dancer
Ryuichi Fujimura Dancer
Jane Bones Gonscak Dancer
Brayden Harry Dancer
Stephanie King Dancer
Dimitri Kleioris Dancer
Brianna Law Dancer
Catherine Moore Dancer
Phillipa Mills Dancer
Ellena Nou Dancer
Xin Hui Ong Dancer
Karen Pearlman Dancer
Kathryn Pule Dancer
Elizabeth Roberts Dancer
Sharlene Roberts Dancer
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