Fresh Kill (1996)
Eco Cyber Noia.
Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.
- Date of release
- 1996-01-12
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Drama
- Director
- Shu Lea Cheang
Casting
- Sarita Choudhury — Shareen Lightfoot
- Erin McMurtry — Claire Mayakovsky
- Laurie Carlos — Mimi Mayakovsky
- Abraham Lim — Jiannbin Lui
- José Zúñiga — Miguel Flores
- Will Kempe — Stuart Sterling
- Nelini Stamp — Honey Mayakovsky Lightfoot
- Rino Thunder — Clayton Lightfoot, Sr.
- Pedro Pietri — Condom Poet
- Kate Valk — Mother Mary
- Ron Vawter — Roger Bailey
- Robbie McCauley — Nina Simpson
Interesting facts
Fresh Kill is a 1994 experimental film directed by Shu Lea Cheang and written by Jessica Hagedorn. It stars Sarita Choudhury and Erin McMurtry as Shareen Lightfoot and Claire Mayakovsky, two lesbian parents who are drawn into a corporate conspiracy involving the Fresh Kills Landfill. Fresh Kill was an official selection at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and is noted for its influence on hacker subculture, with an article about the film for the now-defunct hacker publication InfoNation containing one of the first uses of the term "hacktivism".
Production
Fresh Kill was directed by Shu Lea Cheang and written by Jessica Hagedorn. The film bills itself as "eco cyber noia", the term "cyber noia" (or "cybernoia") having been coined by Cheang to describe "massive intrusions of networking technology into people's lives," and what she foresaw as "a future where multinational media empires clash with hackers." Cheang has stated that the film was motivated by a desire to depict the relationship between the…
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