The flow of waterways in Busan/South Korea stretches from streams via harbors to the open sea. Trying to understand the connections between them, I began to listen to places, holding the camera in focus, listening with lens, while simultaneously recording the environmental sounds with a hyper-sensitive microphone. The result is an exploration of place and space, a holding of breath and a giving way to relationality. The narrative in each film follows what a place has to say. Gradually flowing with sediments only slowly moving due to the slow current, the water streaming into the Yellow Sea carries an array of things left-behind in a slow-steadiness that rests between halting and rushing forward. Caught in the in-between of stay-and-go, these essays invite to ponder, observe and understand the lives that rests in its flow. 

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Yellow Sea Essay 1 - Songjeon Stream opening into Songjeon Harbor, 2025

Yellow Sea Essay 2 - Haeundae Beach, 2025

Yellow Sea Essay 3 - Giljang Beach and Giljang Stream Crossing, 2025

Yellow Sea Essay 4 - Dongjeong Stream, 2025

Yellow Sea Essay 5 - Open Water in front of Songjeong Beach, 2025