Scents and sensibilities

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Andersen talks with Sandi Tan, who shot a film as an 18-year-old in Singapore in 1992, but the footage disappeared. She finally got her hands on the footage a few years ago, and the mystery of its disappearance is the subject of her new documentary, “Shirkers.” Tanwi Nandini Islam is both a novelist and a perfumer — and she demonstrates how she applies both of those talents to create a fragrance based on the Toni Morrison novel, “Beloved.” And getting to the bottom of the hidden meanings and long life of Don McLean’s “American Pie.”

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:09.9	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.0	This first level of garden.
0:14.3	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.2	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.8	Very well done.
0:19.0	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.7	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.3	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.7	Studio 360.
0:27.7	With Kurt Anderson.
0:32.9	In the summer of 1992, my friends and I shot a road movie on the streets of Singapore
0:38.7	that was to become a kind of urban legend.
0:44.2	That's filmmaker Sandy Tahn narrating at the beginning of her terrific new documentary.
0:49.3	That movie was called Shirkers, a word which means running away, avoiding responsibility.
1:00.0	Escape.
1:05.0	I wrote the script and played the heroine, a 16-year-old killer named S.
1:15.0	Her new documentary is kind of a making of film,
1:19.1	but it's about that film that never got finished.
1:23.0	And that's because right after her movie rap, 26 years ago,
1:26.8	her director and mentor, a mysterious guy named George Cardona, just disappeared along with every frame of film.
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