![]() ![]() ![]() 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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