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Stories We Tell
Why this pick
Like Shirkers, it turns personal investigation into a playful, self-questioning documentary, using storytelling itself as part of the mystery and emotional discovery.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2018 1h 36m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Shirkers
Documentary
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Cameraperson
Why this pick
Its intimate, collage-like construction and reflective look at images, memory, and the person behind the camera echo Shirkers’ personal-cinema energy.
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The Beaches of Agnès
Why this pick
A warmly inventive autobiographical film that blends archival material, staged playfulness, and a filmmaker’s idiosyncratic voice with Shirkers’ handmade charm.
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Tower
Why this pick
It combines testimony, archival fragments, and stylized reconstruction to create a vivid, formally adventurous nonfiction puzzle with mounting emotional force.
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Why this pick
For Shirkers’ fascination with lost footage and the politics of authorship, this archival-only portrait lets images gradually reveal a story beneath their official surface.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Stephen Tyler
Himself