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Afterword by Aran Wilkinson-Blanc   A tray of sugar skulls with our names on them, in a cemetery, after dark. It was around August that a group of artists, technicians, and...

These are snippets from Shirkers, the first feature made by Singaporean filmmaker Sandi Tan in the early 90s when she was nineteen. There is no sound in the...

The exploration of what happened that summer, when Tan and her friends decided to make a movie, is a messy dive twenty years into the past. The documentary...

Tan’s concept for the original Shirkers film is rooted in her upbringing in Singapore, a sweaty little island with a government that stressed politeness and decorum, going so far...

Though I wish we could see the original film on its own, separate from the backstory of Cardona, his imprints are everywhere in the documentary Shirkers. The two...