Pankaja Brooke
my video world
Mahatma Gandhi said that if the vision is for one year, cultivate flowers; if the vision is for ten years, cultivate trees; if the vision is for eternity – cultivate people. Ramesh Muthunayagi, a young man from a poor family in Tamil Nadu, India, definitely has the long vision. He obtained a Masters Degree in …
Ringo is a healer and a martial artist…he looks like Bruce Lee, and helps people to amazing recoveries with methods based on the medicine of Manipur, and the strength and skill he has developed through his exploration of traditional fighting skills.
These are girls who live in the town rubbish dump – their work, along with their parents, is sorting rubbish – including hospital waste – into bags, and selling it for 10 rupees a kg….The young girls themselves are sometimes sold also… Rishikesh is the yoga capital of India, visited by thousands of Western tourists …
08.08.2019My father was in the RAF, and there are ex-soldiers in my own family who gave me introductions to various military organisations – but I couldn’t find anyone who was willing to talk to me. I finally got in touch with Penny Connorton, a woman who runs a charity for ex service personnel suffering from …
2014, 45.29 (shown here is the second version, edited in 2017, 40.31) American veterans of the war in Vietnam find resolution and healing by coming back to the place their country devastated, to help heal the legacy of the war. This video tells the story of how some brave American veterans of the war in …
2017, 1.49 You can see the full film here.
2016, 2.26 You can see the full film here.
2017, 19.59 This video tells the stories of some of the kids who have grown up in this beautiful home for destitute children in Rishikesh, North India. Often coming from backgrounds of horrific abuse, many of the older ones are now at university – showing how love can overcome everything. The older kids care for …
2016, 3:39 In the hustle and bustle of the city, surrounded by steel and concrete, the powerful yet gentle and graceful movements of Tai Chi can be a beautiful way to release stress, and come back to ourselves.
2017, 4:45 This video is about Tai Chi in the City with Barry McGinay
2017, 4:41 This video is about Qi Gong in the Chinese Centre.
2016, 10:56 Madhura also lived on a boat off the north west coast of America, where she discovered yet another career as a designer, decorating houses and making beautiful designs for tapestries – as well as creating extraordinarily intricate and precise pieces of embroidery. As a dancer Madhura was one of those annoying people who …
2016, 10.59 Sitting on the sofa in my small flat in London talking with a friend about all the places we’d love to go…we found a link to this amazing train journey – and it only cost $100 for a soft sleeper on the train from Beijing to Lhasa! I had been to Lhasa 30 …
2016, 11.24 This video is about one day in the GulunChanWu Kungfu Academy, a Kungfu school in Dengfeng, Henan province, China. It is built on the foothills of Song Mountain, the central one of China’s five sacred mountains, very close to the famous Shaolin temple. I love to visit this beautiful place, and Master Wu …
2016, 13.58 Madhura studied philosophy at Birmingham Uni, ran a lighting company with her boyfriend, working with bands like Status Quo, was an actress in repertory theatre and in the West End and lived in an ashram in India for several years where she met Indira Gandhi. She also lived on a boat off the …
2014, 9.09 Eknath worked for the telephone company in India for 37 years, moving his family to Pune to be closer to his guru Osho. Raj was teaching tai chi in the Osho Meditation Resort, and when Eknath started coming to class 14 years ago Raj never thought he would last…but here he is in …
2011/2014, 13.43 Top students show these advanced Kung fu forms in the grounds of the beautiful Songyue Pagoda in Dengfeng, China. This film was made a few years ago, and many of these students are now teaching in Master Wu Nanfang’s Wugulun Academy.
2014, 19.41 Bodhihanna was a brave, charismatic and inspiring woman. When this film was being shown at the festival in Berlin she made a special trip to join us there. At the time she was in great pain from what she thought might be sciatica, but that didn’t stop her from her whirlwind travelling. The …
2014, 17.04 Dilip started his job as a coconut wallah when he was about 10 years old, helping his older brother, and when his brother died a couple of years later Dilip took over the business. His spot was just outside the back gate of the famous Osho ashram, and sannyasins were his main customers …
2014, 1.18 This is a trailer for Black in Fashion, a video is about Maureen Vigille, a British couturière who was incensed when a well known Paris designer and an influential Italian fashion magazine painted white models black to represent African queens instead of using a black model.
2014, 12.30 This video is about Maureen Vigille, a British couturière who was incensed when a well known Paris designer and an influential Italian fashion magazine painted white models black to represent African queens instead of using a black model. Blackface was often used in the early 20th century, but always to portray black people …
The Vietnam Friendship Village was founded in 1992 by George Mizo, an American veteran of the Vietnam War who was interested in helping to repair the damage done to the Vietnamese people and to Vietnam-America relations by the war. It is a residential facility located in Hanoi, Vietnam that provides medical care, physical therapy, education …
Some stills from my film ‘You’re the Enemy – Welcome Back!’ and photos taken while travelling and sightseeing in Vietnam (Hanoi and My Son). watch filmblog posts
