FRESH KILL (1994, 80:00, color, 35mm)
2024 release - restored 35mm film print and 4K DCP
Initiated by the Fales Library & Special Collections of New
York University with a grant from National Film Preservation
Foundation.
Selected showings:
Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, 1994.
Whitney Biennale, New York, 1995.
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2024.
Coined as an eco cybernoia film, an avant-anarcho ecosatire, FRESH KILL envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with industrial waste 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 sashimi. 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.
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