The Old Child
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According to one of the stories of the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, the great Taoist thinker who one day fell asleep and dreamt that he was a butterfly. When he woke up, he did not know whether he was really a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or whether he was a butterfly who now dreamed that he was a man. How do you determine what reality is?
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- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
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- Screenwriter : Felipe Esparza Pérez
- Editor : Felipe Esparza Pérez
- Sound recordist : Li Zheng
- Line producers : Estelle Benazet, Jie Min
- Production Manager : Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
- Sound Editor : Yannick Delmaire
- Foley artist : Médéric Corroyer
- Grader : François Engrand
- Sound Mixer : Yannick Delmaire
- Participants : Pema Rigtsal, Joshua Kinney
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Identity, Spiritualité, Religion
- Production language : No dialogue
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2020
- Runtime : 16 min 10 seconds
- Production formats : Digital video
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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