![]() Her movie - a surrealist sci-fi adventure through the Singapore of her youth, made with her two best friends - seemed destined to become a cult sensation, but it was never released. She shot Shirkers, her first feature film, in 1992, when she was a precocious 18-year-old film buff living in Singapore, after having spent her teen years voraciously consuming the films of the French New Wave on smuggled VHS tapes. Tan called her class “How to Build a Time Machine” because she does things in a different order - and at a different magnitude of intensity - than most people. “I’m glad I went, because after that I could sleep,” she explains, as if it’s the most natural thing in the world. ![]() So when the Australian International Documentary Conference asked her to come to Australia to teach a MasterClass in film, Tan accepted, seeing a trip to the other side of the world as the perfect opportunity to reset her body clock. Last year, the 46-year-old auteur was in the midst of a promotional frenzy for her acclaimed documentary memoir, Shirkers, and was averaging around two hours of shut-eye a night. ![]() “I like to take extreme measures to achieve simple things,” she says, sitting across the table from me at a restaurant called Orsa & Winston in downtown L.A. ![]() Sandi Tan was having trouble sleeping, so she decided to fly to Australia. ![]()
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