A monk chases a sparrow and accidentally lives an entire lifetime. No dialogue, all feels.
In a Buddhist temple, young monks begin their meditation when the master arrives. One of the children is distracted by a sparrow and follows the bird outside the monastery. Here begins a walk off the beaten paths that goes to the tour of his lifetime. When he has become an old monk, he returns back to the temple where young monks are waiting for him. One of them is distracted by a sparrow…
Direction
Durin crafts decades of life without a single word spoken.
Director
Rémi Durin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The sparrow acts as a Buddhist metaphor for 'monkey mind'—the wandering attention that paradoxically leads to enlightenment through experience.
Rémi Durin based the mountain vistas on his own trek through the Tibetan Himalayas, filming reference footage at 16,000 feet.
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