Sean Baker

Life at the economic edge, filmed with energy rather than pity. Baker casts non-professionals and works in motels, strip malls and parking lots, finding comedy and warmth in precarity without softening what precarity costs.

Signature

• Non-professional casting from the communities depicted.
• Saturated, kinetic photography — sometimes iPhone — in unglamorous locations.
• Sex work shown as work, without moralising.
• Abrupt endings that puncture the good mood.