Human Geography

"Tangerine" and the Cinema of Sean Baker

This article was published on Fandor in 2015 but is currently not online.

The films of Sean Baker are each guided foremost by person and place, finding the intersection between both that defines lives. In 2004’s Take Out, co-directed by Shih-Ching Tsou, the film follows as Ming Ding (Charles Jang), a Chinese food delivery worker, tries to pay off an $800…