“Tiger of Malaya”: The Body Remembers What the Archive Cannot
about 68 months ago (09/27/2018)
“Tiger of Malaya”: The Body Remembers What the Archive Cannot Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Images courtesy of Monospectrum Photography September 27, 2018 By Corrie Tan (2,080 words, 10-minute read ) Spoiler alert: this essay discusses certain plot points about Tiger of Malaya in detail. The Drama Centre Black Box, on level five of the National Library, is bracketed by floors and floors of reference books and historical documents; to get there you must ascend past the Asian Film Archive on level four. To think of the archive, like the library building and what it contains, is to associate it with stable objects that remain unchanged, eternally re-readable and re-watchable on paper and on film.