UK premiere screening of the documentary on the monasteries of Zanskar, with short films, introductions by Chris McKenna and a Q&A with Dr John Harrison.
Electric Palace is hosting the UK premiere of Living Sanctuaries: The Monasteries of Zanskar on Sunday 22 November, starting at 11:00. It's part of the cinema's Buddhist Sunday Mornings strand, which is curated by Chris McKenna of the Hastings Triratna Buddhist Group. He opens each session with a short meditation and an introduction, and he also runs the Electric Buddhist Film Festival, which is billed as the second largest Buddhist film festival in the UK.
The documentary follows Studio Nyandak, an architecture and engineering firm based in New York City and Dharamshala, on a research expedition to the Zanskar Valley in the Western Himalaya, at nearly 13,000 feet. It focuses on the cliff-hugging monasteries and nunneries there, whose walls are read as living records of Buddhist practice: places of worship and testaments to Tibetan and Himalayan craftsmanship, shaped by centuries of faith, an extreme climate and profound geographic isolation. The film is preceded by two shorts: A Phone Call by Kunchok Rabten (14min 41sec) and Lobsang on Camera by Migmar Jannot (14min 04sec).
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After the screening, there's a Q&A with Dr John Harrison, a historical conservation architect with more than 30 years of field experience in the Western Himalaya. He'll be joined by Chris McKenna, who introduces the session and hosts the discussion. Between the two shorts, the main feature, and the conversation that follows, it's a full morning's programme. The screening starts at 11:00 at Electric Palace, Hastings.
