Should you watch Shirkers?
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Shirkers
Documentary · 2018
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.
The sides of Shirkers
- A teenage film shot in 1990s Singapore
- A mentor who vanished with the footage
- Lost reels found twenty years later
Shirkers is good for you if…
- you like digging into who Georges really was.
- you like a true story told by the woman it happened to.
- you like remembering what it felt like to make something at eighteen.
Shirkers is bad for you if…
- you want a tense hunt for Georges. It plays as a personal memoir.
- you want every question about Georges answered.
About: betrayal · creativity · memory
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