2018 · documentary
Shirkers
Directed by Sandi Tan1h 37m2018
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
Our read: Shirkers (2018) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- signature
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