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Fresh Kill

Tue, Apr 9, 2024
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Production Credits:
The Airwaves Project production
Producer/Director: Shu Lea Cheang
Co-producer: Jennifer Fong and John Woo
Associate producer: Shari Frilot
Screenplay: Jessica Hagedorn
Cinematographer: Jane Castle
Music: Vernon Reid
Editor: Lauren Zuckerman
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Directed by Shu Lea Cheang (1994)
With Sharita Choudhury, Erin McMurtry, Abraham Lim, Jose Zuniga,Will Kempe, Nelini Stamp, and special appearances by Kate Valk, Nicky Paraiso, Alva Rogers, Karen Finley, George C. Wolfe, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley, Laurie Carlo, Ron Vawter, Pedro Pietri, Jimmy Durham and Ching Valdes

New York premiere of a new 35mm restoration for its 30th anniversary!

New media visionary Shu Lea Cheang directs this avant-anarcho eco-satire in which 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. Envisioning New York City as a toxic waste dump of consumerist detritus, Fresh Kill offers a bracing, queer feminist response to the patriarchal poison of corporate capitalism. 

Join us for a Q&A with Cheang following the screening!

4K restored 2024 by New York University Fales Libraries with BB Optics with funds from National Film Preservation Foundation.

UPCOMING Screenings

      RUNNING TIME

      80min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      35mm

      TICKET INFORMATION

      General Admission: $16
      Members: $8

      Please note: A $1.50 handling fee per ticket will be added to all online orders

      Leadership support for
      BAM Access Programs provided by
      the Jerome L. Greene Foundation

      JL Greene

      Leadership support for
      BAM Film provided by
      the Ford Foundation and
      The Thompson Family Foundation

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