Shubo LiuChina
Shubo Liu is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from the School of Film Art at China Academy of Art. Her work is rooted in documentary images and local ecologies, extending into emotions and abstract memories.
Shubo Liu
Floating House
In a border village, Aunt Xin watches her community dissolve as visible and invisible divisions reshape memory and belonging.
Aunt Xin lives in an ethnic Korean village on the China–North Korea border, where most younger residents have moved to inland China or to South Korea. The remaining elders face renewed dispersion, invisible borders, and fading memories of the opposite shore. Blending present day imagery with traces of the past, the film reflects on migration, marginalization, and the emotional landscape of ethnic Koreans in a changing East Asia.
Structurally, Floating House intertwines three narrative threads: daily life in a border village, the border as space, and the character’s inner landscape. Personal routines, border landscapes, and inner reflections gradually weave together. Past and present overlap while memory and reality remain indistinguishable. Aunt Xin’s house becomes both a physical shelter and a metaphorical body: a vessel carrying memory, absence, and longing.
In a world shaped by geopolitical divisions and collective amnesia, the spiritual landscape of the Korean Chinese community remains perpetually “floating”: where can they place their memory, emotion and identity?
- Yongle WangChina
Yongle Wang is a writer, editor and filmmaker based in China. She earned her MFA from University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Passionate about projects that combine intimate perspective with bold artistic vision, she loves collaborating with creatives who continue to carve out space for expression in stifling environments and push beyond boundaries.
Yongle Wang - Zheng’an ZhangChina
Cinematographer and Editor. His works as a cinematographer include Talks Overnight, selected for the International Competition of the Festival des 3 Continents (Nantes, France, 2023), as well as Floating House, Ghost Cat, and Sleep Creek.
Zheng’an Zhang
