Fresh Kill on 35mm film

Special presentation on 35mm film with filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang in attendance for a Q&A! The film has been heralded as visionary, avant-anarcho ecosatire and way ahead of its time since its premiere at Berlinale, Berlin Film Festival in 1994. This Fall, producer/director Shu Lea Cheang is travelling with two young filmmakers, Jean-Paul Jones (Los Angeles based) and Jazz Franklin (New Orlean based) on a roadtrip across USA with the remastered 35mm print of the film. Kaulp Linzy, Tulsa Artist Fellow alumni, will moderate the Q&A.

Tickets $15 members, $20 non-members.

Drama/Sci-Fi, 1h20, Unrated

FRESH KILL (1994, 35mm), coined as an eco cybernoia film, an avant-anarcho ecosatire, envisions a post apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus 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 sushi. 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.

About the guests: Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre bending gender hacking art practices. She drafts sci-fi narratives in film scenario and artwork imagination. She builds social interface with transgressive plots and open network that permits public participation. Celebrated as a net art pioneer with BRANDON (1998 - 1999), the first web art commissioned and collected by Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cheang represented Taiwan with mixed media installation, 3x3x6, at Venice Biennale 2019. Crafting her own genre of Scifi New Queer Cinema, she has made 4 feature films, FRESH KILL(1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUIDø (2017) and UKI (2023). In 2024, she receives the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award. She is currently at work for two major shows in 2025 - HAGAY DREAMING, a theatre performance for Tate Modern and a survey show at Haus der Kunst in Munich. http://mauvaiscontact.info

Jean-Paul Jones, a native of Los Angeles, began his career as an opera and theater performer before relocating to San Francisco, where he continued to flourish with acclaimed groups such as West Edge Opera, Philharmonia Baroque, and SF Playhouse. The challenges of the pandemic prompted a personal journey into filmmaking, ultimately leading him back to Los Angeles to pursue a degree in Film Directing at CalArts. His creative focus explores the intricate intersection of religion and queerness. Passionate about challenging norms, Jean-Paul is particularly intrigued by the male gaze within the context of LGBTQ+ representation. His deep love for musicals serves as a driving force to reinvent the genre, using it as a powerful medium to delve into universal human themes. https://www.jeanpauljones.me/

Jazz Franklin’s filmmaking praxis plays with power and possibility. She has been an activist and grassroots organizer for the past 15 years. Her video and documentary work derived from her organizer’s activities. Based in New Orleans, She has been working with Gallery of the Streets which gathers a global network of artists, activists, and organizers to “transform public and private spaces into temporary sites of resistance...into phantastical subversive imaginaries.” Since 2016, she has been member of the programming team of the PATOIS The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. In 2019, she was a part of the New Orleans Film Society's Emerging Voices cohort and nominated for a regional Emmy for editing Preserving Justice. https://www.jazzfranklin.com/

Kalup Linzy is a multidisciplinary artist. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and a Creative Capital Foundation Grant. His work is in the public collections at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). He has taught at Harvard, NYU, and SVA in NYC. Linzy has worked and collaborated with many well known artists, celebrities, and fashion designers. Among them are James Franco, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne and Proenza Schouler. He is a Tulsa Artist Fellowship Alumni in residence and founder and director of Queen Rose Art House in Tulsa.