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Shu Lea Cheang in person Q&A follows screening
35MM Print
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A maverick indie director returns to the Wex with her classic queer feminist take on the evils of corporate capitalism.
Join Taiwanese-born, new media trailblazer Shu Lea Cheang for a showing of the new restoration of her 1994 debut feature, Fresh Kill. When their daughter disappears, lesbian parents Shareen (Mississippi Masala’s Sarita Choudhury) and Claire (Erin McMurtry) discover an evil corporation is poisoning people with toxic food. To fight back, they must go on the run and turn to a network of activists and hackers to find their child. Cheang combines elements of horror and satire into an eco-feminist critique of the dangers of global capitalism. A Q&A with the director follows the screening. (80 mins., 35mm)
IMAGE CAPTIONFresh Kill, courtesy of the filmmaker.
Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker. Cheang constructs networked installation and multiplayer performance in participatory impromptu mode. She drafts sci-fi narratives in her film scenario and artwork imagination. She builds social interface with transgressive plots and open network that permits public participation. Her genre-bending, gender-hacking art practices challenge the existing operating mechanisms and the imposed boundaries of society, geography, politics, and economic structures.
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY National Endowment for the Arts Ohio Humanities
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Rohauer Collection Foundation
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Greater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family Institute of Museum and Library Services Mellon Foundation Every Page Foundation Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts CampusParc Nationwide Foundation Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme The Columbus Foundation Axium Packaging
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Ohio State Energy Partners Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection David Crane and Elizabeth Dang Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle
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