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Night Fire Films

Tanka

1976 9 min English

“An Animated Vision of the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

"Tanka" means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Tanka is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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David Lebrun Director

United States release January 1, 2015 · Produced in United States

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Night Fire Films

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United States · January 1, 1976

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United States · January 1, 2015

Digital · restored

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