Dancing with the Dead follows the life of Bill Porter, who goes by the pen name Red Pine, an author and renowned translator of ancient Chinese poetry. The child of a bank robber, Bill turned his back on American devotion to materialism and set off to the Zhongnan Mountains in China to uncover something deeper. This film offers a glimpse into poetry and mountain solitude as a path to enlightenment.
This film will be available to stream until midnight on Friday, February 28, 2025 for subscribers to Tricycle. tricycle.org/filmclub/dancingwiththedead/