A new restoration of Shu Lea Cheang’s avant-anarcho eco-satire, in which a lesbian couple living on Staten Island find themselves ensnared in a vast corporate conspiracy.
Born in Taiwan in 1954, new-media visionary Shu Lea Cheang combines artistic concerns with hot-button social issues informed by her globe-spanning information-age career. This series looks at four feature films Cheang has made during the last 30 years, which she terms Sci-Fi New Queer Cinema. From her beloved Fresh Kill (1994), a lesbian avant-anarcho eco-satire set in Staten Island, to her most recent work, UKI (2023), a parable about resilience that merges live action with animation generated with gaming software, Cheang’s forward-thinking vision still pushes boundaries.
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