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THE SURROUNDING GAME

Directed by Will Lockhart, Cole D. Pruitt
United States, 2018
Documentary
  • 9797 minutes

Synopsis

Go, the world’s most ancient and enigmatic game. Following the lives of three young Americans vying to become the first Western professional Go players, the film explores the search for meaning that Go represents to its players, for whom the game is a distillarion of consciousness itself.

Synopsis

Go, the world’s most ancient and enigmatic game. Following the lives of three young Americans vying to become the first Western professional Go players, the film explores the search for meaning that Go represents to its players, for whom the game is a distillarion of consciousness itself.