Transborder Mobility and Movement: Exploring Lim Giong and Midi Z’s Documentary Audiovisuality

This paper examines the collaborative relationship between filmmaker Midi Z and composer Lim Giong, focusing on their shared affinity with film and music as truth-telling art mediums.It highlights their audiovisual aesthetics transcend conventional documentary realism by blending imaginative elements with real-life depictions and embedding authentic details within fictionalized narratives.Through a close analysis of their collaboration in City of Jade (2016), the study explores how their integration of sound and image constructs a dynamic soundscape that reflects experiences of migration, displacement, and dislocation.Particular attention is given to how Lim Giong's experimental music techniques shape the fluid boundaries between reality and fiction in Midi Z's transnational documentary filmmaking.Ultimately, this paper argues that the film's soundscape mirrors the director's personal history of cross-border movement and mobility, linking subjective expression with broader geopolitical and cultural contexts.