After Sertar
Nothing is sacred.
ABOUT
Sertar is the largest Tibetan Buddhists learning area in China. The two most important places here, the Wu-Ming Buddhists academy and the Celestial Burial platform, are experiencing a catastrophe. Under communist rule, any religion must follow communist ideology. The communist party removed the number of Buddhists by removing their houses and used the large number of tourists to make the Celestial Burial platform the same spot as a circus. The future here is very worrying.
YEAR 2019
RUN TIME 22:00 Min
EMAIL twang02@mica.edu Website:
CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTED BY Jade
PRODUCED BY Xingkai Wang
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Qianhui Zhang | Shijie Shen
EDITED BY Jade
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
As a Buddhist, I know the real reason why Tibetans hate communists. Tibetans do not want an independent state, but the right to practice their religion in China, in a land of 9.6 million square kilometers. But the political parties that rule China do not allow this to happen because they see any ideas other than communism as a threat to their dominance. In order to eliminate this threat, the communists constantly used various means to divide and disintegrate the Buddhists spiritual leadership in Tibet. As a buddhist, I don’t advocate violence resistance , but I can’t do nothing. My sense of duty told me that it was necessary to record what I saw.
DIRECTOR BIO
Tieyan Wang is a film director, animation director, MV director and illustrator from Beijing. He holds a double bachelor’s degree from Tianjin university of technology and the University of Quebec. He is currently completing an MFA in filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Tieyan Wang is a film director, animation director, MV director and illustrator from Beijing. He holds a double bachelor’s degree from Tianjin university of technology and the University of Quebec. He is currently completing an MFA in filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
(Update provided in May 2019)