Overview - Sailing a Sinking Sea

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary

Runtime: 64 minutes

Homepage: Sailing a Sinking Sea

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • ภาษาไทย

Production companies

  • Name: Daniel 13

    Production country

  • Name: RYOT Films

    Production country

  • Name: Outer Space

    Production country

Overview

Sailing a Sinking Sea is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are seafaring people and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system, education, and economic and physical development revolve around water. Sailing a Sinking Sea illuminates the Moken lifestyle through recorded traditional music, folklore and conversations with the Moken people. Through intimate and dynamic cinematography and audio recordings, Sailing a Sinking Sea weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices.

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