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Flat Land

KIM Minseon

  • South Korea
  • 2024
  • 32min
  • G
  • DCP
  • color

Synopsis

Amid the city¡¯s crowded raw fish restaurants, where did the halibut in small glass tanks come from? The team Wide Flat Fish follows their stories to the sea, turning memories of confinement, death, and liberation into a performance. Reaching beyond the screen, they invite you to meet on flat ground, connected through the glass wall.

Director's Statement

The halibut, often referred to as flatfish, is considered the most popular choice for raw fish in Korea. Easily spotted in the aquariums of city seafood restaurants, these fish are, in fact, raised solely for consumption in hundreds of fish farms across Jeju Island. This documentary begins at a seafood market in Seoul, where halibuts meet their end, and journeys to the fish farms of Jeju, where they are bred—eventually arriving at Jeju¡¯s marine protected areas, where halibuts were originally meant to live. Beyond addressing issues like industrial aquaculture and the shortcomings of marine conservation zones, the film invites viewers to share a gaze with the halibut, to project themselves onto its body. Through performance sequences, we aim not just to raise awareness of a violent reality, but to inspire a sliver of courage—the courage to meet the halibut¡¯s eyes on the floor.

schedule

Code Time Theater Grade
Special: Ida ELCF - Ida Shorts 2025-08-22 | 15:00 - 16:31 MEGABOX Sinchon 5 PE

Director

  • KIM Minseon
    Based on the theme of the sea and the sea-life, she works across various art genres and social movements. After starting scuba diving with an admire for the ocean full of life, she discovered the possibility of re-building a whole different relationship with the sea-life. She runs the creative collective called Wide Flat Fish and works for Sea Shepherd Korea, a marine conservation organization. As a recent work, she wrote the book named Sea Life, not Sea Food, and directed Flat Land as her first documentary work.

Credit

  • Producer±è¹Î¼± KIM Minseon
  • Cast ·ç¸®, ¹°µµ±úºñ, ¹Î¼±, ¿Â, Àº³ª, 俬 LULI, MULLDOKKEBI, MINSEON, ON, EUN-NA, CHAEYEON
  • Screenwriter ±è¹Î¼±, ÀåÀº³ª, À̷縮 KIM Minseon, CHANG Eun-na, LEE Luli
  • Cinematographer °­Ã¤¿¬ KANG Chaeyeon
  • Editor ±è¹Î¼± KIM Minseon
  • Sound ¾È¼ÒÀ± AN Soyoon