NEEDLE THROUGH BRICK
Documentary | 52 min | USA | 2009 | Directed by Patrick Daly, co-directed by Joel Fendelman
Synopsis
NEEDLE THROUGH BRICK is a documentary about the struggle for survival of traditional culture in the face of a rapidly changing and modernizing world, told from the perspective of traditional Chinese Kung Fu masters living in Borneo, East Malaysia. The story explores the history and culture of Kung Fu and asks deep and important questions about how traditional culture can be kept alive in a world that is forgetting about it.
On the simplest level, it’s a film about the real deal Kung Fu master. Not the ones we see in the Hollywood movies that live on a mountain top with superpowers but the everyday one that struggles to get by like the rest of us.