Chinaman's Peak: Walking The Mountain
- Director:
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- Paul Wong
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- Country:Canada
- Year:1992
- Length:25 min
- Data rate:7.5 MB/min
- Description
- Chinaman's Peak is the name of a mountain in the Canadian Rockies. Walking The Mountain (Hanng San), in Contonese refers to the beliefs and rituals associated with ancestral worship. Ancestral worship continues to be an important part of contemporary Chinese culture. It provides continuity between the past, present and future, and between the living and those in the spirit world.
Chinaman's Peak is a geographic, physical and metaphorical place that frames this story. Walking The Mountain appeases the hungry ghosts of those who came before. Specifically honoured in this work are the spirits of the Chinese Pioneers, the railway workers in the late 1800's, the miners at the turn-of-the-century, the Sojourner Hoy Ming Wong (1896-1968), and the suicides of Kenneth Fletcher (1954-1978) and Paul Speed (1967-1991). These seemingly isolated people and histories are united through death and the communal act of remembering. - Extras
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