Shot along both the Detroit and Windsor sides of the Detroit River, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad, the Detroit River being a major terminal point, and more modern resistance and liberation movements represented by Dudley Randell’s Detroit based, independent publishing company, Broadside Press (approx. 1965-1975), as well as the installation-, sculptural, and performance works of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications and all of the recordings are one take only without a rehearsal prior to the recordings. All of the readers are natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were approached to read while the film was in production.
