Sada [regroup]

Filmmaker Name (2021, trt)
The calls and voices are a compilation of fragments of interviews with former residents and nature activists, field recordings of birds in the area, and a selection of oral, species-specific Malay bird pantuns, collated by writer Alfian Sa’at. These pantuns, or four-line poems, include natural-historic evocations of local ecology and birdlife, and were often recited in an improvisational, call-and-response manner; a performance that echoes the competitive calls of birds.

Lucy Davis (2021)
As we worked, a method came slowly into focus that we now call “storytelling like shadows through leaves.” We imagined making a series of experiences that brought together image possibilities conjured by shifting shadows of leaves, with experience of that sudden clarity when a bird flies past or perches on a branch or an open window and calls and you only hear a fragment of the call and then they are gone but the memory of that sound resounds inside you and you might even find yourself calling back without realizing you are doing it. This is a longer description of Video 2. You can even include some links like this.