Two religious pilgrims take the cable car to the "Manakamana" temple in Nepal. (Courtesy) When anthropology is done right, it looks something like “Manakamana.” Filmmaker Pacho Velez and longtime ...

Is it a Zen meditation or a travel documentary? An ethnological treatise or an essay on changing religious practices? Is it about landscapes or the people who pass through them? Or is it just a ...

The faces in “Manakamana,” a transporting ethnographic film set in a green sliver of Nepal, stare into the camera, out into space and, perhaps, into the great beyond. The faces are sometimes creased ...

The Sensory Ethnography Lab, a collective of researchers and filmmakers based out of Harvard, made a name for themselves last year with the theatrical release of Leviathan, a thunderbolt of ...

Directed — insofar as that term applies here — by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez and produced by “Leviathan” visionaries Lucien Castain-Taylor and Verena Paravel, the feature begins with a single ...

With few credits under their belts, directors Stephanie Spray and Pablo Velez bring us “Manakamana,” a documentary feature that follows a group of Nepalese pilgrims who make their way to the sacred ...

The Manakamana Cable Car, Nepal's first passenger cable car linking Chitwan's Cheres station with the famed Manakamana temple in Gorkha, resumed operations today after a one-week closure. The service ...

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William Blake’s oft-quoted observation about finding the world in a grain of sand comes to mind more than once during “Manakamana,” the latest in a string of marvelously original non-fiction features ...