★ 棕櫚泉國際電影節
★ 阿姆斯特丹紀錄片影展
★ 全景紀錄片影展
“他曾是歐洲時尚圈最潮型男,現在他是第一位來自西方的藏傳住持與攝影大師。”如同兩千多年前的悉達多王子一般,出身時尚世家的尼可拉斯.佛里蘭,從五光十色的花花世界中陡然抽身,轉而追求佛教的理想境界。曾經是前途光明的攝影師,最後他卻成為了一名藏傳佛教僧侶……。本片以尼可拉斯的觀點進行敘事,同時整合了尼可生命中的重要關鍵人物的觀點,包括西藏精神領袖達賴喇嘛、藏傳佛教重要人物穹拉仁波切、好萊塢國際巨星李察吉爾…等人。清楚描繪尼可拉斯.佛里蘭不可思議又極富靈性啟發的生命軌跡。
MONK WITH A CAMERA chronicles the life and spiritual quest of Nicholas (Nicky) Vreeland, who for the past twenty-eight years has been a Tibetan Buddhist monk. The son of a United States Ambassador, grandson of legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and a photographer by trade, Nicky left his privileged life behind to follow his true calling. He moved to India, cutting his ties with society, photography, and his pleasure-filled world, to live in a monastery with no running water or electricity. There he would spend the next 14 years studying to become a monk. Then in one of life’s beautiful twists, Nicky went back to the worldly pursuit of photography in order to help his fellow monks rebuild their monastery, one of the most important of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His journey from being a photographer to becoming a monk and, most recently, to being appointed as the abbot of the monastery he helped to rebuild, are the core of the story. |