Winner, Best Feature Documentary Director, Rancagua, Chile, 2020 Winner, Best First Feature Film by the Director, Rancagua, Chile, 2020 Winner, Best Cinematography in Feature Film, Rancagua, Chile, 2020 Winner Documentary Film, Virgin Spring Cinefest, Kolkata, India, 2020 Winner Honorable Mention,…
Winner, Best Feature Documentary Director, Rancagua, Chile, 2020
Winner, Best First Feature Film by the Director, Rancagua, Chile, 2020
Winner, Best Cinematography in Feature Film, Rancagua, Chile, 2020
Winner Documentary Film, Virgin Spring Cinefest, Kolkata, India, 2020
Winner Honorable Mention, TopShorts, Los Angeles, California, 2020
Winner Best Documentary, TMFF, London, UK, 2020
Winner Best Cinematography, Sweden Film Awards, Norrbottens Lan, Sweden, 2020
Winner Best Feature Documentary, New Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal, 2020
Winner Best Cinematographer, American Golden Picture International Film Festival, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, 2020
An ORDER disruption
Blue Kangling
BLUE KANGLING – DIR. Matt Blackburn
Feature-Length Documentary, Cinema Verite
Music Credit: Gustavo Santaolalla – Motorcycle Diaries
Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and expose the core of human nature.
SYNOPSIS
Death is one of the most elusive and taboo concepts. It’s permanence and uncertainty have mystified and confounded humans for millennia. One aspect however, that we know for certain, is one day we will all die.
Tibetan Buddhist have multifaceted explanations, theories and practices around their concept of death and what happens to a consciousness once it collapses into darkness. Thousands of years of meditation, teachings and living in extreme conditions have given way to rich existential theories built on basic human truths.
Blue Kangling is a film that uncovers the collective consciousness of death for Tibetan Buddhist. It is an observational approach revealing individuals who shape, influence and live according to this knowledge. Understanding is established through intimate portraits of commoners, as well as the philosophical and culturally enlightened who offer meaning and insight behind Tibetan Buddhism. Exploring rituals and practices from generations past, we uncover early cultural influences and explanations that answer the existential questions, “Why are they here?” and “Where they will ultimately go?”
TECH SPECS
Motion Picture: Digital Cinema
Project Title: Blue Kangling
Genre: Observational Documentary
Production: ORDER Productions, LLC.
Aspect Ratio: Square, Cinemascope Crop (2.35:1) Camera Specs: RED Epic-W Helium DSMCII Filming Format: 5K-6K Raw REDWideGamutRGB 3G10 24fps
Color Depth: 16-bit
Location: Mustang Region in Nepal
Still Photography: Digital Medium Format
Aspect Ratio: 3:2
Camera Specs: Hasselblad H6D 50-c Medium Format
Format: Hasselblad 3FR 50MP 300DPI
Color Depth: 16-bit
Line Producer & Nepali Translator
Aashish Shrestha
Tibetan Translator
Sering Dorje AKA Michael
1st Assistant Director
Naresh Kumar KC
Sound Recordist
Thomas Kurian
Cultural Adviser & Translator
Tsepak Rigzin
Actor & Driver
Ratna Shrestha
Music Track
Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche
by
Ani Choying Drolma
Music Track
Under a Blue Grey Sky Act III
by
Jeremiah Cymerman
SPECIAL THANKS TO
His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche
His Holiness Sakya Trizin
The 41st Generation Throne holder of the Sakya order of Tibetan Buddhism
Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman
American Buddhist Author Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at ColumbiaUniversity
Co-founder and president of Tibet House New York
Yangsi Rinpoche
Geshe Lharampa
Reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun
President and Founder of Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon
Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association
Portland, Oregon
