Their subsequent films, some of which were commissioned by the BBC, include The Trials of Telo Rinpoche, A Stranger in My Native Land, and The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet. Their most recent work is a video installation, Some Questions on the Nature of Your Existence, which was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna.
In 1996, they moved to Dharamsala, India to be closer to the exiled Tibetan community about whom they planned to make a feature film. That project, Dreaming Lhasa, was shot in the winter of 2003 with a predominantly non-professional cast and completed in January 2005.
Tibet, in all its dimensions, has been the focus of Ritu and Tenzing’s work. Through their films, they have attempted to document, question, and reflect on the issues of exile, identity, culture, and politics that confront the Tibetan people.
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