Bill Porter Movies

  • 2023
    Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation

    Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation

    Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation

    02023HD

    The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to...

    Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
  • 2009
    Cold Mountain: Han Shan

    Cold Mountain: Han Shan

    Cold Mountain: Han Shan

    02009HD

    In the mountains and monasteries of China, four translators and writers recount the life and work of Tang dynasty hermit poet Han Shan (Cold...

    Cold Mountain: Han Shan
  • 2015
    Hermits

    Hermits

    Hermits

    02015HD

    25 years ago, American author Bill Porter (a.k.a. Red Pine) went to the Zhongnan Mountains to seek out modern Chinese hermits. His resulting book,...

    Hermits
  • 1994
    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine

    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine

    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine

    01994HD

    This is a documentary of a trip into the Sacred Mountains of China with Red Pine (Bill Porter) to meet Buddhist and Taoist monks and nuns who live as...

    Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine