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 Lofu's 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
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Includes: The Inspired Island: Home In Two Cities, The Inspired Island: The Man behind the Book, The Inspired Island: Towards the Completion of a Poem, The Inspired Island: The Untrammeled Traveler, The Inspired Island: Port of Mists, The Inspired Island: The Coming of Tulku, The Inspired Island: River Without Banks, The Inspired Island: Boundary, The Inspired Island: A Life That Sings, The Inspired Island: Multiflorate Splendour, The Inspired Island: My City, The Inspired Island: 1918, The Inspired Island: A Lifetime In Chinese Literature, The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams, The Inspired Island: A Lean Soul, The Inspired Island: I Remember, The Inspired Island: Still Young, The Inspired Island: The New Formosa Mambo
