SUBLIME CINEMA #599 - FOREST OF BLISSSublime anthropological documentary about Benares, India and it

SUBLIME CINEMA #599 - FOREST OF BLISS

Sublime anthropological documentary about Benares, India and its religious communities. It’s by Robert Gardner and made Werner Herzog’s short list for his favorite films of all time. 

Gardner is an anthropologist and an unsung ethnographic filmmaker (Rivers of Sand and Dead Birds which he directed are also very good - and then there are a dozen films of his beyond those I’ve never seen or heard of). Forest of Bliss can be found on MUBI these days.