Year: 2009
Directors: Luis Miñarro
Writers: Luis Miñarro & Lama Jinpa Gyamtso
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Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
To kick-off our coverage of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, we’ve got Luis Miñarro’s hypnotic documentary Blow Horn. Ostensibly it’s a look at the journey that five native Spaniards take over a 3 year stay at the Sherabling Monastery in Bit, India – however, the initial set-up of interviews with the group pre and post-visit, and footage of them acting as part of a team with the monks to complete daily chores, worship and meditation, soon gives way to an epic montage of life in the surrounding area; monks, citizens, visitors, and all. Miñarro seems to dispense with the regular conventions of documentary film-making to instead take us on what could be described as an experiment in sound and vision equitable with Gorfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi .
I liked this film quite a lot.
Directors: Luis Miñarro
Writers: Luis Miñarro & Lama Jinpa Gyamtso
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
To kick-off our coverage of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, we’ve got Luis Miñarro’s hypnotic documentary Blow Horn. Ostensibly it’s a look at the journey that five native Spaniards take over a 3 year stay at the Sherabling Monastery in Bit, India – however, the initial set-up of interviews with the group pre and post-visit, and footage of them acting as part of a team with the monks to complete daily chores, worship and meditation, soon gives way to an epic montage of life in the surrounding area; monks, citizens, visitors, and all. Miñarro seems to dispense with the regular conventions of documentary film-making to instead take us on what could be described as an experiment in sound and vision equitable with Gorfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi .
I liked this film quite a lot.
- 11/12/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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