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Fresh Kill (1996)
Director: Shu Lea Cheang
Cast: Sarita Choudhury, Erin McMurtry, Laurie Carlos, Abraham Lim
Runtime80 min
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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.
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Fresh Kill is a 1996 science fiction drama film directed by Shu Lea Cheang that received a mixed critical reception. The film follows a lesbian couple living on Staten Island who become entangled in a conspiracy involving nuclear waste and deadly cat food. While the film's unique premise and visual style were praised, some critics found the narrative and characterization to be uneven.
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Fresh Kill, directed by Shu Lea Cheang in 1996, blends science fiction and drama in a visually striking exploration of conspiracy and decay. Starring Sarita Choudhury and Erin McMurtry, this unique film offers a captivating narrative that merges ominous environmental themes with the personal lives of its lesbian couple protagonists.
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Fresh Kill is a 1994 British-American 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".
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