Video: Sandi Tan's Shirkers | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Video: Sandi Tan’s Shirkers | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Published on March 19, 2018

Sandi Tan‘s first (or second pending how categorize them) feature film is truly a masterclass in reappraising and reappropriating your own creative work arch. Bending the non-fiction rules with an essay-like investigative template, Shirkers is an unearthed post-card to Singapore and one of a kind deep reflection on memory and….selective memory. The docu was picked up by the Netflix folks and will work the docu-fest circuit. Here is one of the premieres (mythic Egyptian theatre) of the film at Sundance.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).