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Shirkers is a 2018 documentary written and directed by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan. It reconstructs the making of an independent road movie that Tan and her teenage friends shot in Singapore in 1992, only for their American collaborator Georges Cardona to disappear with the footage. Combining recovered film material, interviews, and personal narration, it investigates authorship, memory, and lost creative time; Tan won Sundance's World Cinema Documentary directing award.
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What is Shirkers about?
Shirkers is a 2018 documentary by Sandi Tan that reconstructs the story of an independent film she and her teenage friends shot in Singapore in 1992. Their American collaborator Georges Cardona disappeared with all of the footage, and Tan investigates what happened decades later.
Did Sandi Tan ever recover the stolen Shirkers footage?
Tan eventually located and recovered the original film cans from Georges Cardona years after they disappeared, but the audio recordings were missing. The recovered footage allowed her to partially reconstruct and reexamine the lost film that she had spent her youth creating.
Who was Georges Cardona in the Shirkers story?
Georges Cardona was the American film mentor who worked with Sandi Tan and her friends on the original Shirkers project in Singapore. The documentary depicts him as a charismatic but manipulative figure who absconded with the footage, and Tan interviews people who knew him to understand his motivations.
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