Videos

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, 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 …

Ramana’s Garden is a home for destitute children which was started almost by mistake by an energetic and charismatic American woman in Rishikesh, North India. Prabhavati was once an actress in Hollywood who came to India 30 years ago on a spiritual pilgrimage, started feeding and teaching a few local children and now is now …

Prabhavati is an American woman in her 50’s who used to be an actress in Hollywood. Nearly 20 years ago she started Ramana’s Garden, a home for destitute children in Rishikesh, North India. Last year one of her 67 children, a 15 year old girl named Lalita, was kidnapped and sold to a brothel in …

Guo Deping was born in 1966, during the time of the Cultural Revolution in China. He and his six siblings grew up living in a cave – which was not unusual in Henan Province at that time. Cave dwellings had been popular places to live for centuries – cosy, well insulated, and sometimes even luxurious. …

This documentary follows Master Wu Nanfang, a Kung Fu Master who is the great great grandson of Wugulun, a 19th century monk from the famous Shaolin temple in Henan Province, China. During its turbulent history the Shaolin temple has been destroyed and rebuilt many times, as various warlords tried to co-opt the fighting skills of …

Master Wu Nanfang is a Kung Fu master and also a Zen master, who lives in the town of Dengfeng, in Henan province, China. The town might be small, but there are more than 40 Kung Fu schools there, because of the proximity of the famous Shaolin temple. This short film shows Master Wu Nanfang …