Eco-Activist SCI-FI COMEDY!
Fri, Aug 20
|Epsilon Spires
An intersectional eco-activist comedy with a punk ethos of rebellion and fun! Shu Lea Cheang's film FRESH KILL explores media as both a mechanism of control and a potential tool of protest, solidarity and change, exploding the obscured mechanics of environmental racism into plain view.
Time & Location
Aug 20, 2021, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Multimedia artist and digital pioneer, Shu Lea Cheang brings her radical experimental vision to a viciously political and campy narrative of two young lesbian parents who fight against environmental racism in the form of radioactive fish lips. Named for the actual Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, Fresh Kill (1994) is a playful, sci-fi romp that fantasizes an eruption of the oft-times obscured mechanics of environmental racism into plain view, connecting the real landfill on Staten Island to the radioactive dump sites on Orchid Island with the delirium of greenwashing and public relations.
Produced nearly thirty years ago, Fresh Kill is presciently relevant to the questions we are grappling with today around unchecked corporate power, industry’s destabilizing impact on global ecosystems, and the unequal distribution of that harm onto communities that are already grappling with poverty and political disenfranchisement. Beautifully shot in candy colored 35mm, the collaged style of the…
Tickets
Admission to Backlot Cinema!
Ticket for one person- Midsommar-inspired attire enters you into a raffle to win gift certificates to local businesses! includes entry into the Raffle! Please choose your seating with respect for others and let us know if you require special arrangements. Enjoy the program!
$10.00
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