Fluid Boundaries
Synopsis
In the area of Shinyeonlee in South Korea, people work next to the river on the border. Chinese, Indian, and Malay fishermen are fishing on the sea border in between Malaysia and Singapore. Ichan, who is a sailor in Indonesia tells us his story about the people that he transports from Indonesia to Singapore. In Singapore, foreign workers go to Malaysia to renew their employment passes. On the way back they remembered their relative who is working in Korea. Peter in Korea tells us stories about his travels and his life faraway from the family. After hearing various stories of the people who spend a lot of time near the borders, we question: how much do these people have in common even if they live in different places, and share different individual histories? Through the stories and lives of these people, a rigid structure like border becomes softer and liquid.
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Credits
Mun Jeonghyun
His following films were well received by many international film festivals, including “Grandmother’s Flower” (2007), winner of Woonpa Award at BIFF in 2007 and “Yongsan” (2010), winner of New Asian Currents at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. His next feature work “A Play With Masks” also screened in Busan in 2012. While his mood piece about the dark side of Korea’s development, “Collapse”, picked up the BIFF MECENAT Award in 2014.
Daniel Rudi Haryanto
Daniel Rudi Haryanto (born April 17, 1978) is an Indonesian documentary film director, a graduate of the Faculty of Film and Television, Institut Kesenian Jakarta. His first feature-length documentary, Prison and Paradise, premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2010. The film then screened at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2011 and Cinema Digital CINDI International Film Festival 2011 (South Korea). In 2014, he released his second feature-length documentary titled Fluid Boundaries at the Busan International Film Festival. The film was a collaboration with two directors from other countries, Mun Jeong-Hyeon from South Korea and Vladimir Todorović from Serbia. Fluid Boundaries was later screened at Cinéma du Réel in 2015.
Vladimir Todorovic
Vladimir Todorovic is a filmmaker, artist and educator. His projects have won several awards and have been shown at various festivals, exhibitions, museums and galleries including: HANIFF, Cottbus (28th), Visions du Reel (49th, 46th, 44th), Cinema du Reel (37th), Sarajevo FF, IFFR (42nd, 40th and 39th), Festival du Nouveau Cinema (42nd), BIFF, SGIFF, L’Alternativa, YIDFF, Siggraph, ISEA (2008,2006), Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Centre Pompidou, The Reina Sofia Museum(Madrid), and Japan Media Art Festival.
