The Scene of the Scene

3. Shirkers.


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In the early 90s, three teen zinester girls in Singapore make a movie with

their Svengali-like older friend Georges. It’s a feature-length experimental
road movie called Shirkers, and it is destined to become a cult classic—until
Georges runs away with the footage. Sandi Tan, the wunderkind screenwriter and
lead actor of Shirkers, now presents
Shirkers (2018), a documentary about
the lost film, and an attempt to figure out what happened after Georges left.

Chris Piuma and Nadia

Halim saw the film at Hot
Docs and discussed it afterwards over drinks.

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