In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if Shih-T’ao’s six poetic procedures for attaining the primal respiration or cosmic breath in painting were applied to one of the flagships of Western art, Velazquez’s Las Meninas. Ruiz wants the three cultures to interact and test each other like the paper, stone and scissors of the children’s game. The result is an insoluble dispute, a différend. No reconciliation or compromise is possible between these cultural outlooks.
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Stars: Jean Badin
Crew: Raúl Ruiz (Director), Raúl Ruiz (Writer), Valeria Sarmiento (Editor), Jorge Arriagada (Original Music Composer), François Ede (Director of Photography)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: العربية, Español, 普通话, Français
Studio: Koninck Studios, BBC
Runtime: 5 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1995
IMDb: 6
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