Taipei, June 19 (CNA) A 50-minute experimental film that will premiere at the Taipei Film Festival will try to create "poetry in motion, " the film's producer said Tuesday at a test screening.
The film, produced by the Public Television Service (PTS), is a collaboration of five established Taiwanese directors each of whom presents a 10-minute film inspired by famous poems and poets, said Sylvia Feng, producer of the PTS program Viewpoint and chief coordinator of the project.
The short films, directed by Tseng Wen-chen, Wu Mi-sen, Hou Chi-jan, Chu Hsien-jer and Mickey Chen will premiere June 24 at the annual Taipei Film Festival and will be played on Viewpoint June 29.
"You can find a lot of similarities between poetry and documentaries. However, it is extremely difficult to transform words into images, " according to Wu.
Other than Wu's, whose idea for his short animated film titled "Yearning" came from an assignment he gave his students years ago, all the films have been inspired by works of well-known Taiwanese poets, including Hsia Yu, Ling Yu and Sun Tse-ping.
The films include Tseng's "Keep Dancing, " Chu's "Genesis, Rehearsal, " Hou's "Shopping Cart Boy " and Chen's "Seeking Friends Along the Coast."
This is the second time PTS has produced experimental "poetry in motion" filmmaking, following huge success in 2003, Feng said, adding that the production of documentary films has seen a cross-over trend in recent years that combines the elements of animation, musical and image effects.