The shot is taken through the barrier looking across Kenh Te canal towards district 4.
The shot is filmed between two barges moored to large concrete mooring posts. The barges, look residential, but are probably also used for commercial purposes, perhaps bringing goods from the Mekong Delta to this part of the city where a floating market has established itself.
The shot also contains a third barge that moves across the frame carrying trees for the TET holiday. Old warehouse buildings can be seen on the far side of the canal.
This short sequence is looking along the canal towards the entrance with the Saigon river. To the left of the shot is a park in district 4. To the right of the shot is the built-up area of District 7.
A short sequence with a number of layers, five in total, using the overlay blending mode and cropped from the top half of the shot, so that only the reflection in the canal waters can be seen as heavily saturated and abstracted images of the far Bank, the north side of the canal.
This short sequence is heavily blurred and layered to intensify the colour and produce black patches within the frame. The sequence captures a small boat moving along the Kenh Te canal, but it only appears as a white blob that moves across the frame.
The saturation of the sequence captures the essence of the colour in the city, and add to the calmness of the shot and create a space where you lose yourself as if in a daydream.
Shot taken at night, looking north across Kenh Te canal towards a set of buildings that could be residential or light industrial. There is little ambient light in the shot so the river is very dark and the reflections of the lights in the river are strong. There is little movement in the water of the canal and so the reflections in the water very clear and add to the very contrasting nature of this shot.
Shot taken at night, looking north across Kenh Te canal towards a disused warehouse in District 4. The shot has an unusual light, perhaps due to the water reflecting ambient light. The reflection of the warehouse on the far bank is almost like a mirror as there is very little disturbance on the surface of the canal.
This shot is taken from the district 4 side of the Kenh Te canal, looking south towards district 7 on the far bank. The sequence shows a motorboat and two red-and-white poles for guiding the canal traffic. A small boat moves through the frame from left to right. The surface of the canal water demonstrates a variety of patterns caused by the slight breeze, and the ripples of the moving boat.
This shot is taken from the district 4 side of the Kenh Te canal, looking south towards district 7 on the far bank. The sequence shows a motorboat and two red-and-white poles for guiding the canal traffic. The surface of the canal water demonstrates a variety of patterns caused by the slight breeze.
This shot looks towards Tan Thuan 2 bridge. Bringing traffic from district 4 to district 7. Behind this bridge can be seen Tan Thuan 1 bridge which is taking traffic from District 7 to district 4. Some boats can be seen moored in the middle of the canal and the surface of the canal is disturbed by a slight breeze removing any reflections, that may occur.
This shot of the Kenh Te Canal is looking south towards district 7. The shot comprises of a moored barge and four navigation poles for the traffic moving along the canal. There is a slight breeze diffusing the reflections contained on the surface of the canal.
This shot uses optical zoom to focus on the red of the floating market barges that are still moored on the district 7 side of the canal. The shot slowing pans along the canal to the right.
Two reflections can just be made out on the surface of the canal water. The ripples of the water with a focus of this shot. It has been taken from the bank of district 4. The overcast weather limits any detailed reflections and reduces the colour of those reflections in the water.
This panning shot starts by looking towards Tan Thuan 2 bridge. Pan then move right along the canal, offering contextual views of the district 7 canal bank.
Two reflections can just be made out on the surface of the canal water. The ripples of the water with a focus of this shot. It has been taken from the bank of district 4. The overcast weather limits any detailed reflections and reduces the colour of those reflections in the water.
This shot uses optical zoom to focus on the rear of the barges at the top of the frame, and the patterns generated by the breeze on the surface of the canal.
This wide angle shot reveals the layering of the built environment of district 7, from the small tube houses that line the canal edges, to the new apart meant buildings behind. The calmness of the canal picking up the reflections of the city, patterned by the breeze.
Looking directly south, through the canal navigation poles this shot is interrupted by a barge moving towards the Tan Thuan 2 bridge and the Saigon River beyond.
This film examines flow and movement on and around the Kenh Te canal. The rhythms of routines and living with the canal as your every changing environment defines this part of the city.
This long shot looks from D7 towards D4 over the Kenh Te canal from the Cong Vien Cau Rach Ong (Ong creek park).
The focus of the shot is the contrast between the new build apartments and the , the remains of tree roots, and fishing net pegged out in the canal.
This medium shot looks from D7 towards D4 over the Kenh Te canal from the Cong Vien Cau Rach Ong (Ong creek park).
The focus of the shot is the smoldering fire, burning collected rubbish.
This long shot looks from D7 towards D4 over the Kenh Te canal from the Cong Vien Cau Rach Ong (Ong creek park).
The apartment building looms over the canal edge homes.
This medium shot looks from D7 towards D4 over the Kenh Te canal from the Cong Vien Cau Rach Ong (Ong creek park).
The focus of the shot are the remains of plants and trees that once lined the canal edge. It now collects plastic dropped into the canal.
This long shot looks from D7 towards D4 over the Kenh Te canal from the Cong Vien Cau Rach Ong (Ong creek park).
The focus of the shot is a barge going form D1 towards the Mekong Delta, the remains of tree roots, and fishing net pegged out in the canal.
