Our Life is Like Our Breath
Our Life is Like our Breath is a short film by Hartwig Rohrmann from 1996 tracing the life of a western monk in Wat Pa Nanachat, the monastery Ajahn Chah founded for his western disciples; at that time Ajahn Pasanno was the Abbot, so it is before his founding of Abhayagiri in California, and it is not long after the passing of Ajahn Chah.
From the producers website:
This documentary film describes in detail the daily life in the international forest monastery, Wat Pah Nanachat in Thailand. In this story, the viewer comes to know about the vipassana meditation practice and the philosophy and customs of the beggar monks through the eyes of a European monk, the actor in the film.
The filmmaker himself lived for some time amongst the mostly western forest monks, and succeeds in showing, from an insider view, the spiritual practices which Buddha set down 2500 years ago.
