BUDDHUST STRAND
Onlookers
Tourists swarm and recede like a passing tide. A visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers.
Director: KIMI TAKESUE
Cast includes: N/A
Buddhist Sunday Mornings is curated by Chris McKenna, local buddhist practictioner, along with our annual Electric Buddhist Film Festival, the 2nd largest Buddhist Film Festival in the UK. Before each screening Chris will lead a short meditation and introduction to the film.
Onlookers is a fascinating documentary which offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play. Drawn to spectacle, tourists swarm to magnificent Buddhist temples, the ordered rituals of monks, and sites of dazzling natural beauty, then recede like a passing tide, leaving Laotians to continue with their daily lives.
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