The wonderful Shirkers reclaims a lost film by chronicling its rollicking DIY production
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The do-it-yourself ethic that drove numerous underground artists in the tail end of the 20th century had as much to do with determination as it did with self-sufficiency. Though certainly ideological—especially in an anti-corporate 1980s punk context—and often financially motivated, DIY was still rooted in the…