Manakamana (2013)

Directed by

Pacho Velez, Stephanie Spray

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows groups of pilgrims riding a cable car in Nepal. Each trip is filmed continuously from the same angle inside the car as the passengers travel to a temple.

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What happens

Manakamana is a 2013 documentary film directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. It is an experimental documentary about pilgrims traveling on the Manakamana Cable Car between Cheres, Chitwan and the Manakamana Temple in Nepal. The film has been acquired for U.S. distribution by The Cinema Guild. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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