24.10.24, 20:30, Fresh Kill (1994)

Conspiracy theories, Sapphic love, green-hot cats and making love while your partner plays the accordion, Fresh Kill really does have it all. Shareen and Claire are raising their daughter Honey in New York, amid the garbage-filled, cursed Staten Island. One day, when Claire prepares a rotten fish for Honey, the girl starts glowing green and disappears. Shareen and Claire discover that the multinational GX Corporation is responsible for New York's pollution and thus Honeys disappearance. With some help from their friends, they try to hack into the company and expose it.

In this experimental chaos of a film, director Shu Lea Cheang makes a case for eco-cyber-noia, a critique of the relationship between the media and environmental racism. This message is conveyed through a montage that feels like we are constantly switching channels or jumping between search tabs. But although the head is shaken throughout, Fresh Kill remains at all times a feast for the senses. Or, as a lost soul describes on Letterboxd: I'm not entirely sure what happened but think it went well for the lesbians.

This screening will be preceded by the short film Sex Fish (1993). Fresh Kill will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang.