The Inspired Island River Without Banks

The Inspired Island River Without Banks
River Without Banks 2014 takes poetry and war as its main theme As homage to Death of a Stone Cell the film is structured into ten segments each led by the first lines of the first ten stanza of the poem Correspondences between the poet and his friends are incorporated throughout taking the audience back and forth between Lofus youth and middle age only to eventually depict a full picture of the protagonist The camera follows Lofu on his trips back to the bomb shelter and tunnel in Kinmen and his hometown Hengyang in Hunan Province of China while also capturing his daily life in his adopted country of Canada Acclaimed as the Wizard of Poetry Lofu shares through the film of the most insightful reflections
DirectorWan-Jo Wang

Movie Details

Original Language:Chinese

The Inspired Island (Series)

The film project "They Write on the Island" attempts to use documentary images as the medium, and the director's film style and language as the guide, to introduce important Chinese writers to the next generation while recording important records of literary masters in the form of film texts readers. Our focus is not limited to preservation, but also to show how writers and their works convey moving power during the historical process of handing over generations, and become literary and cultural assets of generations.