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Film Critic Review: Silver Screen Award-Winning Essay

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    Review of ‘{if your bait can sing, the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves’: So Sing Your Song of Re-Enchantment, So See but at an Angle

    By Tracey Toh

    The Young Critic Award goes to Tracey Toh (Singapore) for her essay on the short film “(If your bait can sing the wild one will come) Like Shadows Through Leaves”. Paying attention to the various elements in the film — not only the visual but importantly, the audio — the essay is an ecocritical dive into the entanglements between bird and human life. In doing so, it makes an argument for cinema as a mode of perception, a way of attuning our deadened senses to the life that flourishes around us.
    https://sgiff.com/stories/so-sing-your-song-of-re-enchantment-so-see-but-at-an-angle/

    Period5 Dec 2021

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    • TitleReview of ‘{if your bait can sing, the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves’: So Sing Your Song of Re-Enchantment, So See but at an Angle By Tracey Toh
      Degree of recognitionInternational
      Media name/outletSingapore International Film Festival
      Media typeWeb
      Country/TerritorySingapore
      Date05/12/2021
      DescriptionHow do we touch the wild without trapping it? No nature film can escape this paradox: to catch a life on camera is to commit violence, manifested in the vocabulary of “aim”, “shoot” and “capture”. To document is to inevitably disturb the subject and distort the image.

      {if your bait can sing, the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves, by the Migrant Ecologies Project, responds to this dilemma. Their previous installations and exhibitions explored the entwined fates of humans and birds, both displaced by the redevelopment of Singapore’s Tanglin Halt estate. This performative documentary takes a more reflexive turn, challenging the anthropocentric ways of knowing and representing conditioned by cinema.
      URLhttps://sgiff.com/stories/so-sing-your-song-of-re-enchantment-so-see-but-at-an-angle/
      PersonsLucy Davis
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