Shirkers (2018)

Directed by Sandi Tan · Cinematography by Iris Ng

TV-1497 min60 frames

Documentary

There are movers, there are shakers, and there are shirkers.

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Shirkers — official trailer

What is Shirkers about?

In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.

Shirkers is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, making her the second Singapore-born filmmaker after Kirsten Tan to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.

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Where can you watch Shirkers?

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Who stars in Shirkers?

Sandi Tanas Self
Sophia Siddique Harveyas Self
Georges Cardonaas Self (archive footage)

Who made Shirkers?

What does the cinematography of Shirkers look like?

Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of Shirkers leans on medium shots (40% of the sample) and close-ups (27%). Cinematographer Iris Ng keeps 53% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 75% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 58% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1990s.

What is the color palette of Shirkers?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Shirkers (2018) are #f6f4ed, #d4d0cb, #2f2b29, #ede8d5, #d4302e, #d25253 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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