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Fresh kill / a film by Shu Lea Cheang.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Cheang, Shu Lea, film director.
Choudhury, Sarita, actor.
Lim, Abraham, actor.
McMurtry, Erin, actor.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 1310.
The Criterion Collection ; 1310
Standardized Title:
Fresh kill (Motion picture : 1994)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lesbian mothers--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Lesbian mothers.
Missing persons--Investigation--Drama.
Missing persons.
Radioactive contamination of food--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Radioactive contamination of food.
Fresh Kills Landfill (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
Fresh Kills Landfill (New York, N.Y.).
Genre:
Experimental films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Lesbian films.
Science fiction films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Place of Publication:
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2026]
Language Note:
English dialogue; English SDH.
System Details:
Blu-ray, wide screen (1.85:1); 2.0 surround DTS-HD master audio sound; requires Blu-ray player.
digital
optical
surround
DTS-HD Master Audio 2,0
video file
Blu-ray
Summary:
A disturbingly prescient ecofeminist parable and a brain-wave-scrambling cyberpunk fantasia, the debut feature from new-media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang merges a bold vision of resistance with an exuberant early-internet aesthetic. In a dystopian-chic New York where sushi joints and toxic-waste sites exist side by side, a lesbian turn to the hacker underground to solve their daughter's disappearance, in the process exposing a conspiracy involving corporate greenwashing and tainted fish. Swinging between outre satire and agitprop, Fresh Kill sounds the alarm about a capitalist system that pollutes everything from our waterways to our bodies to our minds.
Participant:
Sarita Choudhury, Erin McMurtry, Abraham Lim.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
Special features: New interviewa with Cheang and Saria Choudhury.
Title from web page.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
ISBN:
9798886074239
OCLC:
1581175474
Publisher Number:
715515333818
19459458 Midwest Tape
CC3810BD The Criterion Collection

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