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I make sense

Missives on media, marketing and more. Edited by Amar Patel

October 8, 2018

Stranger than fiction

by Amar Patel in film


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Shirkers-film-sandi-tan-sophie-siddique.jpg

If your best friend had stolen your childhood dream, would you relive the nightmare 25 years later? That is the fascinating premise for Sandi Tan’s movie Shirkers, which I saw at the ICA last Saturday. It’s another example of the power of narrative-driven documentary – part memoir and part film within a film, all wrapped up in a mystery.

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TAGS: Shirkers film, Sandi Tan, Sophie Saddique, Sophia Harvey Vassar College, Jim Jarmisch, documentary, Georges Cardona, Werner Herzog, Maggie Lee, Bruno S, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Cleopatra Wong, Coen Brothers, Singapore, David Lynch, Kodak 16mm, Modern VideoFilm, Douglas Sirk, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Stories We Tell, Iris Ng, ICA, Fitzcarraldo, Paris, Paris texas, Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Sex Lies & Videotape, James Spader, Straits Times, Sundance Film Festival, Terrence Malick, Nestor Almendros, Days of Heaven, Lucas Celler, Author: The JT Leroy Story, Ishai Adar, Weish