Tea
2005, English. Directed by Frank Scheffer.
Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Scheffer interlaces the images with interviews with Dun, stage director Pierre Audi and librettist Xu Ying, about the opera and the role tea and oriental philosophy play in this work. Using monochrome, sometimes abstract images (in yellow, blue, red and green), close-ups of plants and flowers and images of the Chinese nature and people (sometimes accelerated or decelerated, sometimes in black-and-white), he mirrors the stylised opera performance and Dun's reflective music.
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- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- 29 January 2005
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Tea runs 90 minutes (1h 30m).
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Tea isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 January 2005. (Checked 2 November 2026.)
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Who directed Tea?
Tea (2005) was directed by Frank Scheffer.