Private Project

Kailash - Stony Paths

Popol Vuh expedition on the way around Mount Kailash.

  • Frank Fiedler
    Director
  • Frank Fiedler
    Writer
  • Frank Fiedler
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    2 hours 26 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 4, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    80,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    China, Nepal
  • Language:
    English, German
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Frank Fiedler

Frank Fiedler is a german cameraman, musician and director.
He studied at the Berlin Film-Academy and was partner in music- and film works with Florian Fricke and co-founder of the band Popol Vuh (there they made lots of music for Werner-Herzog-movies like "Aguirre - The Wrath of God"). Beside this he worked as cameraman in several documentaries, feature-films and theater-movies. From End of the eighties he added some directing works, for instance "The Wheel of Recurrence", a view on the central tibetan-buddhist symbol of the Wheel of Life.
f-fiedler-muenchen@t-online.de

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Director Statement

this material was filmed as a camera-dairy for Popol Vuhs music-film-opera "Pilgrimage to the Throne of Gods" in 1994. We were some of the first to be allowed to travel this paths in Tibet.
I saved the material till today and finished it now with modern hightec apps.
a German version is available