Francisco Cisco Pancho(2011)

Francisco Cisco Pancho Synopsis

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The personal history of Francisco Varela as told by him on his veranda in Monte Grande, Chile, on February 17, 2001 when he was already greatly weakened by chemotherapy but still extremely present and awake, three months before he died on May 28, 2001. As very few before him have done, Francisco Varela attained levels of accomplishment in Western science as well as in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. ORAL ANTHOLOGY: Individual interviews with Francisco Varela, Amy Cohen Varela, Bruno Latour, H.H. Dalai Lama, Tsoknyi Rinpoche; and poems by Francisco Varela, read by his father, Raúl Varela Rodríguez.

Francisco Cisco Pancho (2011) is a documentary film directed by Franz Reichle, released on January 1, 2011 with a runtime of 3h 19m. It stars Francisco Varela, Amy Cohen Varela, Bruno Latour and Tsoknyi Rinpoche.