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/

    Aikajakso5 jouluk. 2021

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    • NimiReview 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
      Tunnustuksen arvoInternational
      Medianimi / kanavaSingapore International Film Festival
      MediatyyppiWeb
      Maa/AlueSingapore
      Julkaisupäivämäärä05/12/2021
      KuvausHow 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.
      URL-osoitehttps://sgiff.com/stories/so-sing-your-song-of-re-enchantment-so-see-but-at-an-angle/
      HenkilötLucy Davis
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