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XINJANG 'NODO DELL'ASIA'
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Xinjang 'Asia's Knot'
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Gaia Ceriana
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Following with a camera a group of professors of the Oriental Studies Department of La Sapienza University (Rome) in their researches for an exhibition on the region, the author imagines two different journeys in two historical times. One journey in the present, following a coal truck on the street running along the Taklamakhan desert, through the oasis-cities, the Uigur bazars and the Chinese cities in full development. The journey of the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang called Tripitaka, in the sixth century towards India in search of the Buddhist holy texts, is told through the archeological remains of the kingdom-cities where Buddhism, tolerance and the silk way trade flourished.
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Screenplay Giovambattista Salerno, con la collaborazione di Matteo Compareti
Photography (colour) Luigi Verga, Gaia Ceriana
Editing Marcella Anselmetti
Music Musiche tradizionali
Production Indoroman srl
Year of production 2005
Running time 26' |
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Gaia Ceriana
Gaia Ceriana was born in Siena in 1949. She graduated in Philosophy from La Sapienza University of Rome. In the period 1985/93 she is the president of the Association Italia India. In 1995 she founds Indoroman, for the collection and distribution of handloom cloth from the Mediterranean to India. She has directed the following documentary films: Ladakh Centro dei Passi (1978), on Tibetan Buddhism and the city of Leh; Le Crisalidi (1981), on women in Islam; Videodiario di viaggio con lettera (1983), a trip through the US, the Caribbeans and Brazil; Ora che non siamo più bambini (1991-96), 8 contemporary artists work, each for one day, with the children of a school in Rome; Gaia in India (2004).
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