Peter Sellars: this body is so impermanent…
As part of Samora Pinderhughes’s The Healing Project, YBCA is thrilled to present both in-person and digital screenings of this body is so impermanent… (2021) by Peter Sellars. From Friday, August 12–Sunday, August 14, 2022, visitors can experience this groundbreaking film both online at YBCA.org and in person inside of YBCA’s screening room, with an introductory conversation between Sellars and Pinderhughes.
"As part of Samora Pinderhughes’s The Healing Project, YBCA is thrilled to present both in-person and digital screenings of this body is so impermanent… (2021) by Peter Sellars. From Friday, August 12–Sunday, August 14, 2022, visitors can experience this groundbreaking film both online at YBCA.org and in person inside of YBCA’s screening room, with an introductory conversation between Sellars and Pinderhughes.
this body is so impermanent… is a multi-disciplinary film performance project based on a passage from the Vimalakirti Sutra, a foundational Buddhist text from the 1st century CE.
Made in isolation by artists on three continents, the project is a creative response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The group of virtuosic and singular artists—South Indian devotional singer Ganavya in Tygh Valley, OR; improvisatory dancer Michael Schumacher in Amsterdam, Netherlands; visual artist and calligrapher Wang Dongling and cinematographer Yu Luk-wai in Hangzhou, China; sound designer Shahrokh Yadegari in La Jolla, CA; film editor Tim Squyres in Maplewood, NJ; and director Peter Sellars in Los Angeles, CA—came together to create an hour-long meditation on a transformative and startlingly honest text." — YBCA, July 22, 2022
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