Get ready for a special Reel Talk Pro event with director Shu Lea Cheang, where we’ll be screening her eco-cybernoia masterpiece, Fresh Kill 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 Kill envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus and suffering the toxic repercussions of mass marketing in a high-tech commodity culture. “Kill” is Dutch for stream, Fresh Kill 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 Kill evokes the furious rhythms of channel surfing with its rapid-fire editing style.

Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director Shu Lea Cheang.

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 KILL(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.