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Program Note​

In Flow, pets and wild animals—who would never have shared such cramped quarters if not for a great flood—set off on an open-ended voyage together. What stands out is that unlike in conventional animal animations, these creatures are not overtly anthropomorphized. They don't speak in human language or mimic human gestures. Instead, they communicate through their own sounds, facial expressions, and body movements. Watching them, the audience also steps away from human language and becomes attuned to the subtle shifts in the animals' expressions and gestures, participating in a process of non-verbal communication. Through this, one comes to realize that the difficulty of communication stems not from a lack of effective means, but from a lack of effort to truly engage with the other's sincerity.

Flow does not attempt to understand human life through an allegory mapped onto animals. Rather, it seeks to find a way out of the deadlock of human existence by observing the lives of animals themselves. While previous animations featuring animals often projected human traits onto them, this film invites the audience to step down from a position of vertical superiority in order to meet the animals at eye level. In doing so, the audience sheds human logic and anthropocentric thinking, entering more deeply into the animals' world on a primal, sensory level. Within that space, one may catch a glimpse of a way to coexist with beings that are fundamentally different from oneself. (KIM Kyung-tae)​

* This film has no dialogue.