I AM TIBET - Dolma, Invisible Women In Quest of Herself
- Documentary
April 25, 2009
Shot in cinéma-vérité style for
6 months at a dozen refugee camps: Freedom is the raison
d’être of Tibetans who, for thousands of
years, have been nomads roaming with herds of yaks on
the roof of the world, a plateau as vast as Europe.
Fifty years after the invasion by communist China, a
new generation of Tibetans born in exile in India have
not forgotten a Tibet they have never seen. They are
united around the Dalai Lama but also busy surviving
the harsh environment of India in settlements too crippled
by unemployment and diseases to efficiently fight China.
Thru waves of joy and sorrow, they prepare their youth
to preserve a culture on the decline. The world of spirits
and wrathful deities is engaged in fiery battles as
everything must pass on the earth plane. Tibetans live
and die in non-violence knowing Tibet must be freed
against all odds. Dolma, an invisible woman in quest
of herself in a troubled world, voices her frustration
as our witness in this poignant documentary shot in
a dozen refugee camps: “The echo of the conches,
the danyen, the kangdung, the damaru, invite me to a
distant world where celestial dakinis take me by the
hand. As I dive relentlessly in delight, the wrathful
deities sail on stormy clouds around us. I am Tara,
painting with sand a treasure map. Thru the web of conflicts,
I hear cries agonizing for freedom, faceless, nameless,
their mind out of tune, their memory stolen. We don’t
need your sorrows, a million times too late. My sisters
are sold as whores, orphans beg around the Barkhor in
the streets of Lhasa. We never had beggars in Tibet
before. My civilization is sinking into destruction,
Tibet is now a land of darkness draped in misery. The
blood of slaughtered Tibetan nuns runs thru my veins.
Tara descends her throne, fierce goddess on a carpet
of sweet blossom fragrance, the hail dropping light
drums on the rain washed leaves, chimes carried away
by pregnant clouds, Tara, Beloved Queen, commands the
element of nature to protect the forbidden land. Effortless
being, Arya Tara is Dolma, the cosmic mother of liberation.”
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