The Haunting Power of Sound in Aswang

The Haunting Power of Sound in Aswang

This paper examines the audibility of Aswang (2019), the first feature-length documentary that tackles Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. I locate the documentary against the audibility of terror produced by the Duterte regime, accentuated by the primary metaphor of the aswang lege...

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Main Author: Macapagal, Katrina
Format: text
Published: Animo Repository 2021
Subjects:
aswang
Philippine documentary
haptic listening
haptic aurality
politics of listening
Duterte
war on drugs
Philippine films
Film and Media Studies
Pacific Islands Languages and Societies
South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss2/5
https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1014/viewcontent/4_Macapagal_The_20Haunting_20Power_20of_20Sound_20in_20Aswang_Akda_201_282_29.pdf
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Institution: De La Salle University
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Summary:This paper examines the audibility of Aswang (2019), the first feature-length documentary that tackles Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. I locate the documentary against the audibility of terror produced by the Duterte regime, accentuated by the primary metaphor of the aswang legend where the documentary initially draws its political charge. Inspired by theories of sound and haptic listening, I argue that Aswang, through its composition of key sound elements such as the voice-over, music, and urban noise, configures an overall audibility that amplifies, rather than reduces, the humanity of the documentary’s subjects.

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