HH Dalai Lama's poem - The Paradox of Our Age

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The Paradox of Our Age: Film Review

We are headed towards a morally bankrupt world wherein our ethical intelligence lay suffocated and confused. Equation of time to money, man to machine and life to a sullen burden, mark our postmodern era. The ruthlessness of our world accentuated by heedlessness of our conscience, batters our souls to weightless dusts. And scarcely do we receive a Nietzschean hammer that questions and uproots our insipid ways of lives.

In this short, yet insightful four minutes film, The Paradox of Our Age; directed and edited by a Tibetan filmmaker, Thupten N. Chakrishar, precisely performs this Nietzschean chore. He had established himself as the frontrunner amongst Tibetan contemporary filmmakers with the helming debut of his critically acclaimed documentary film, Following Kunsel, this short film exhibits his brilliant hybridization of poetic sensibility with celluloid aestheticism.

The Paradox of Our Age, is a visual adaptation from a poem written by H.H the 14th Dalai Lama. In this film, Thupten was able to create a meditative piece through the concomitant of poem and cinematic magic. Each footage becomes an epigram with no vestigial shots. The skillful intertwining of semiotic attributions to the powerfully versed poem accentuate the elegance of the project.

The majestic and graceful prayer-voice of H.H the Dalai Lama accompanied by a serene panoramic scene of twilight initiate the film. Thereafter the dexterously treated cinematic montages, explicates and explores the theme of impermanence in a secular and universal manner. Within these four minutes, the film touches the bone marrow of four major existential inquiries: Being, Life, Death, and Ethics. Though the vastness of the subject matter could impose intimidation to any artist, Thupten successfully and skillfully manages to summate all those inquiries in an artless yet profound manner.

Finally, the acute relevance of the film's theme to our own lives, make us ponder upon such paradoxes of our technocratic age. In brief, it stirs our minds in a poignant manner and respects our individualities by not giving any concrete answers.

The Paradox of Our Age can be seen on www.youngtibet.com

Review done by Tenzin Rigdol, contemporary Tibetan Artist (rigdolfinearts.com)


Narrated by
Jeff Lebow

Music
Kelsang Chukie Tethong
Ngawang Khechog and Jeff Beal

Produced by
Young Tibet Pictures

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Dalai
• Lama
• Paradox
• chakrishar
• Thupten
• short
• film

[MegaInstant]

Soon it will be 2012 and unfortunately we still keep on living in this paradox...

[TheEzman123]

@goosepeuk Well great minds think alike

[goosepeuk]

@TheEzman123 Well, so far I have two forms of proof, one digital, one hardcopy posted to myself and at least one witness who i recorded it with in 1994, so yes is the answer as far as im concerned dude.

This whole thing 'squeezed my brain' a bit to be honest so we'l leave it at that.

I know what I know dude, I just can't work the rest out & Im not here to argue or pick out worthy opponents or digital shite like that so let your rich assed dalai take it from me it it makes you.....content.

[TheEzman123]

@goosepeuk really my friend?

[goosepeuk]

I've just looked and I have the proof to say I wrote it in 1995, and I'm off to check my self-sent copywrights to see if I have anything further back........Dalai Lama, Geaorge Carlin, Dr Bob Moorehead........nah.....littl­e old acid taking 17 year old me, or I was back then in 1993

[goosepeuk]

If the Dalai Lama wrote this he stole my idea and expanded on it........1993......me.

[ZOEWUWUANGIE]

Dalai Lama's poem?

isn't this writen by a Columbine student who witnessed the High School massacre?

[lobdet]

@dorjeedhondup ...... Tashi Delek...:)

[QLFILMS]

very very true.

[dorjeedhondup]

@lobdet