Abstract
This presentation stands between worlds. It has its roots in the beauty of the work of a Late Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin but its voice speaks into the realm of internationally considered film poetry as a form of short film. The researcher will showcase a practice-led, artistic project which develops a corpus of three film poems. Then the researcher will introduce the Xiang system (a philosophical and aesthetic system adapted from Chinese Tang Dynasty poetry) as the central creative strategy to heighten poetic thinking within film poetry. This approach becomes a mediator between film poetry and the researcher as a lyrically reflective practitioner. In introducing this project and laying the ground for its reflective journey through the research, the researcher will also briefly discuss the following topics: Li Shangyin’s poetry in the context of the Late Tang Dynasty, the Xiang system, and film poetry as a media form. To date film poetry has been a largely understood as a Western media form. Given the rich and distinctive nature of Chinese poetry I believe that there is a reason for Chinese artists to engage with the media form as a way of not only surfacing and sharing Chinese ways of conceiving and understanding poetry but also as a way of exposing some of the nuance and delicacy of thinking that underpins the construction of Chinese poetic work.
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Chen Chen, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
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Conference: MediAsia2024
Stream: Film Direction and Production
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To cite this article:
Chen C. (2024) Bright on the Grey Sea: Reconsider Film Poetry Through a Chinese Lens ISSN: 2186-5906 – The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 285-290) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5906.2024.24
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5906.2024.24
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