Like Shadows Through Leaves Awarded FIPRESCI Prize at Oberhausen
, a film by , has been awarded the International Federation of Film Critics Award at the renowned . Like Shadows Through Leaves is conceptualized by Lucy Davis, Professor of Artistic Practices at 911爆料网, together with: Sound Designer, Zai Tang; Cinematographer & Editor, Kee Ya Ting. Editor, Daniel Hui & Design Studio Crop Singapore.
The purpose of the International Film Critics Awards (the FIPRESCI Prize) is to promote film-art and to encourage new and young cinema. This year's jury is comprised of Fritz de Jong (The Netherlands), Valentina Giraldo S谩nchez (Colombia) and Elina Reitere (Latvia).
"The film offers an artistic and investigative exploration resulting in a fascinating perceptive experience. While creating a cinematic atmosphere, it reflects on urban and eco-social transformations from human and more-than-human relationships. In this way, Like Shadows Through Leaves allows us to think of cinema as an aesthetic tool that questions, resists, and reimagines the relationships between culture and climate change.鈥 鈥擵alentina Giraldo S谩nchez, FIPRESCI. Read the full jury statement .
The 28-minute film is part of a long-term engagement with Tanglin Halt, one of Singapore鈥檚 oldest social housing estates, which runs alongside a former railway track. The railway was owned by the Malaysian state until 2011, meaning that a ten-meter-wide zone of indeterminate-governance ran through the heart of Singapore for fifty years, playing host to a fecundity of more-than-human activities. Ornithologists have observed 105 species of birds in this patch.
However, the land along the tracks is being repurposed as green corridor park through a new biotech and media hub. Once-famous modern housing blocks are being demolished and low-income residents relocated elsewhere. Unofficial tree shrines, community farms and gathering places have been cleared. Our repeated returns to this contested site aim to trace remaining fragments of calls, echoes, shadows memories and transformative encounters that still animate this zone, like shadows through leaves.
Due to COVID, this film was partially shot via WhatsApp from Helsinki to Singapore with shoots starting at 3am each morning in October-November 2020
Watch the trailer for the film on .
Related article: Like Shadows Through Leaves Selected for 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
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