David wants to fly
- David Lynch
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- David Sieveking
- Donovan
- Paul McCartney
- Michael Persinger
- Marie Pohl
- Prem
- Ringo Starr
- Judith Bourque
- Raja Emanuel
- Raja Felix
- Earl Kaplan
- John Knapp
- Mark Landau
- Jottir Matt
- Rajeb
- Swami Swaroopanand
- Mia Farrow (archive footage)
- George Harrison ( archive footage)
David wants to fly - a yogic adventure ( German David wants to fly ) is a documentary by David Sieveking from the year 2010, the film was premiered on 12 February 2010 in Panoarama documents of the 60th International Film Festival in Berlin, German theatrical release was on the 6th. May 2010.
Content
The founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Transcendental Meditation ( TM) was an unprecedented success story. The young director David is looking for inspiration. David's idol, the great director David Lynch, insured, TM is also the source of his creativity. David takes him at his word and unbiased approaches with a partially shocking naivety of transcendental meditation. He undergoes a costly meditation training, will receive his personal mantra and tries his hand at yogic flying.
Soon, however, he recognizes contradictions in the TM organization and is critical to research on the backgrounds of which has become a multi-billion dollar industry organization. Maharishi dies suddenly, now there is a dispute over his succession. As a result, David Lynch is the most important international TM ambassador. The Indian gurus who were very cooperative at first, now want to stop the shooting. When David begins to seek TM renegades, the organization behaves downright hostile, Lynch even threatening with a lawsuit against the film crew.
David travels to the U.S. and to India to visit the Hindu monastery Jothir Math in which the TM founder Maharishi is said to have received his orders. There he told his successor that Maharishi was a rascal who had not had the right to distribute his meditation teaching. He sends David to the Himalayas to the source of the Ganges, where he found his own truth.
Production
The film was directed by Skylight Ventschr film in co-production with Dschoint film production, Navigator Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte, produced Swiss Television and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation.
The filming took place in Berlin and Hanover, in the United States in New York City, Fairfield, in the buildings of the Maharishi European Research University ( MERU ) in the Dutch College of St. Louis in Vlodrop and the Swiss Seelisberg and on Bramasthan of India ( at Jabalpur befindlicher " field center " rather than in terms of the Vedic spatial planning).
Awards
David wants to fly got the Hessian Film Award for Best Documentary. On the Message to Man - International Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival 2010 in St. Petersburg, he was awarded the Special Jury Prize in the international film critics and the International Film Festival Warsaw 2010 and to Viennale 2011 in Vienna, he got one honorable mention.
In addition, the film was awarded particularly valuable from the German Film and Media Review (FBW ) with the predicate.
Reviews
"Without excessive controversy, but with a clear view of dogmatic and businesses make generic excesses of the film sketches enlightening as well as entertaining the minutes of a sobering, search for meaning '. "
"Out of the process of its slow realization [ David Sieveking ] has made a clever, self-deprecating and still very revealing movie. The yogic fliers should not be just happy with this PR success. "
" David wants to fly ' teaches the amazement of how far the hunger for meaning people can go to the west. For David Sieveking finally not the Himalayas, but the Berlin Teufelsberg proves to be a sacred place - the very secular German capital is thus also not quite lost for eternal truths. "