Reel Talk Pro: Fresh K*ll (Featuring a post-screening Q&A in person with director Shu Lea Cheang)

Name: Reel Talk Pro: Fresh K*ll (Featuring a post-screening Q&A in person with director Shu Lea Cheang)
Start: 2024-10-02T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-02T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Film Streams' Ruth Sokolof Theater (Omaha, NE)

Schedule

Wed Oct 02 2024 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Film Streams' Ruth Sokolof Theater (Omaha, NE) | Omaha, NE

Reel Talk Pro: Fresh K*ll • Dir. Shu Lea Cheang
Location: Ruth Sokolof Theater
Date: Oct 2
Get ready for a special Reel Talk Pro event with director Shu Lea Cheang, where we’ll be screening her eco-cybernoia masterpiece, Fresh K*ll on 35mm! Stick around after the film for a lively discussion as Cheang dives into her trailblazing career and the film’s visionary themes. You won’t want to miss this exciting event!
About the Film
Coined avant-anarchoecosatire, Fresh K*ll envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus and suffering the toxic repercussions of mass marketing in a high-tech commodity culture. “K*ll” is Dutch for stream, Fresh K*ll tells the story of two young lesbian parents caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. The place is New York and the time is now. Raw fish lips are the rage on trendy menus across Manhattan. A ghost barge, bearing nuclear refuse, circles the planet in search of a willing port. Household pets start to glow ominously and then disappear altogether. The sky opens up and snows soap flakes. People start speaking in dangerous tongues. A riveting and densely packed film, Fresh K*ll evokes the furious rhythms of channel surfing with its rapid-fire editing style.
About Shu Lea Cheang
Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre-bending, gender-hacking art practices. She drafts sci-fi narratives in film scenarios and artwork imagination. She builds social interface with transgressive plots and an open network that permits public participation. Celebrated as a net art pioneer with BRANDON (1998 - 1999), the first web art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cheang represented Taiwan with a mixed media installation, 3x3x6, at Venice Biennale 2019. Crafting her own genre of Sci-Fi New Queer Cinema, she has made four feature films, FRESH K*ll(1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUIDø (2017) and UKI (2023). In 2024, she receives the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award. She is currently working on two major shows in 2025 - HAGAY DREAMING, a theatre performance for Tate Modern, and a survey show at Haus der Kunst in Munich.
For info, visit https://filmstreams.org/films/fresh-K*ll