Top
Skip to Content
LOGO(small) - Queen's University Belfast
  • Our x-twitter
  • Our facebook
  • Our youtube
LOGO(large) - Queen's University Belfast

SARC: CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY
RESEARCH IN SOUND AND MUSIC

  • Home
  • About
  • People
  • Facilities
    • Sonic Lab
    • Studios
    • Broadcast Studio
    • Fabrication
    • Gallery
  • Research
  • Impact
  • PhD/MA Programmes
    • MA Sound and Music
  • Theses Archive
  • Ensembles
  • News
  • Gallery
  • Events
    • Subscribe to our Mailing List
    • SARC Youtube Channel
    • SARC Radio
    • Archive 2025 Events
    • Archive 2024 Events
    • Archive 2023 Events
    • Archive 2022 Events
    • Archive 2021 Events
    • Archive 2020 Events
    • Archive 2019 Events
    • Archive 2018 Events
  • Home
  • About
  • People
  • Facilities
    • Sonic Lab
    • Studios
    • Broadcast Studio
    • Fabrication
    • Gallery
  • Research
  • Impact
  • PhD/MA Programmes
    • MA Sound and Music
  • Theses Archive
  • Ensembles
  • News
  • Gallery
  • Events
    • Subscribe to our Mailing List
    • SARC Youtube Channel
    • SARC Radio
    • Archive 2025 Events
    • Archive 2024 Events
    • Archive 2023 Events
    • Archive 2022 Events
    • Archive 2021 Events
    • Archive 2020 Events
    • Archive 2019 Events
    • Archive 2018 Events
  • Our x-twitter
  • Our facebook
  • Our youtube
In This Section
  • Subscribe to our Mailing List
  • SARC Youtube Channel
  • SARC Radio
  • Archive 2025 Events
  • Archive 2024 Events
  • Archive 2023 Events
  • Archive 2022 Events
  • Archive 2021 Events
  • Archive 2020 Events
  • Archive 2019 Events
  • Archive 2018 Events

  • Home
  • SARC
  • Events

Events

The Way of Zen (PhD Research Documentary)

Back to events

The Way of Zen is a 65-minute research documentary that explores how Zen philosophy can be represented through cinematic audiovisual language.

Date(s)
February 9, 2026
Location
Sonic Lab, SARC, 4 Cloerren Park, QUB
Time
18:30 - 20:00

The film follows two parallel pathways of Zen practice: Hanling, whose walking meditation project unfolds through everyday movement in Northern Ireland, offering a sensory and reflective mode of Zen experience; and Junayde, whose journey is shaped through martial arts training at the Shaolin Temple in China and participation in international competitions, embodying discipline, attention, and composure. Although these strands begin separately, they gradually resonate with each other, presenting Zen not as a distant cultural symbol but as an accessible and lived practice.

Director: Tianpeng Yao
Featuring: Hanling Cao, Junayde Guven
Duration: 65 minutes

Research focus
Centring on the documentary The Way of Zen, this study explores how cinematic audiovisual language can convey key Zen concepts such as emptiness, mindfulness no-mind, unity between heaven and humanity, and impermanence. By avoiding dialogue and explanatory narration, the film uses visual and sonic strategies including blank-leaving compositions, low shutter speed, slowed pacing, long takes, and ambient sound to create a contemplative mode of viewing that foregrounds sensory awareness and meditative experience.
Event type
Film
Lecture / Talk / Discussion
Department
Audience
All
Add to calendar
Share
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Weibo
  • Email
Events
  • Subscribe to our Mailing List
  • SARC Youtube Channel
  • SARC Radio
  • Archive 2025 Events
  • Archive 2024 Events
  • Archive 2023 Events
  • Archive 2022 Events
  • Archive 2021 Events
  • Archive 2020 Events
  • Archive 2019 Events
  • Archive 2018 Events
QUB Logo
Contact Us
SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music 
School of Arts, English & Languages
4 Cloreen Park
Belfast
BT9 5HN
United Kingdom

General Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 4867
E-mail: sarc@qub.ac.uk

Quick Links

  • Home
  • About
  • Facilities
  • News
  • Events

Social Media

© Queen's University Belfast 2024
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Website accessibility
  • Freedom of information
  • Modern slavery statement
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • University Policies and Procedures
Information
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Website accessibility
  • Freedom of information
  • Modern slavery statement
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • University Policies and Procedures

© Queen's University Belfast 2024

Manage cookies