ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (THE EARTH TURNED GREEN)
Synopsis
ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (The Earth Turned Green) is a film by Shen Xin centered on restorative practices drawn from the Tibetan language through performance, land and family histories. Shen’s work explores relations outside of nationalistic belonging. Their recent research focuses on multitudes of the self and the other, as well as the interrelationship between culture and ecology. [Overview courtesy of the Swiss Institute]
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