where life carry's us and how we carry life

Before and after finishing my studies at the Rietvelt Academy in Amsterdam, I have been travelling for the past 14 years from pole to pole. Every step, every ride, every flight has meant disengagement and extirpation. But the further away I was from home, the more clearly the contours of my person were drawn up, through roads chosen and challenges met.

Through the years, I got intrigued by the lifetimes of people I met on my travels. The idea of lives that come across at the “right” moment is the basis for Portable Life.
When travelling all over the world, you have more chances to hear interesting life stories because the meetings with people are often very short and therefore usually more intense.
Conversations with people you meet are about the “portable ness”, or the exact opposite, of being and about the origins of their way of living. I like to dig in to the mysteries of their lives, their choices. These questions often remain unanswered but they leave traces of images, moments and feelings.
My experiences and own idea of karmic meetings form the subtext, the undertone and thus the possibility of this film.
Why do we meet certain people in our lives? And what can these people learn us? What can we share with them?
There is beautiful magic in these meetings, a moment hard to describe in words, but a moment of pure perfection. It is my motive to capture this very powerful force between lovers and friends and enemy's. People who keep on meeting “accidentally”, the connection, the unexplainable trust you feel with some people, or that you can feel in certain places where you have never been before. Situations that are to scary or to coincidental to be true, but they are..

"The world journey of a young women" leads the viewer not only to many different cultural crossroads but also to unidentifiable, non anecdotic places.
Places that are more representing a psychological state then an actual location.
We can interpretate the word “journey” in different ways, a real physical journey,a journey through the lives of others. an inner journey.An journey through differend life times..
The journey is a puzzle which with holds pieces of information in different parts of the world and in various encounters with others . In her exhausting journey in search of the person to be with and the place to be the final answer is that is me

“Portable Life” will be an experimental, personal film, strongly coloured by my love of travelling the people and challenges I met. My love for dance, and my photography.

Portable life is the first full length feature film from Fleur Boonman

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