Today from 17:00-20.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will continue their weekly screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Fresh Kill (dir. Shu Lea Cheang, 1994), with an introduction by Martina Furlan.

Director Shu Lea Cheang described her film as “eco cyber noia,” a term she coined to capture the deep integration of networking technology into everyday life and a future where global media empires collide with hackers. The story follows Shareen and Claire, a working-class lesbian couple, and their daughter, Honey, as they become entangled in the conspiracy surrounding the Fresh Kill Landfill on Staten Island. Their lives take an unexpected turn when an environmental disaster begins to impact their community -- a corporate cover-up involving toxic waste disposal and contaminated seafood traced back to a multinational conglomerate. As they delve deeper, they find themselves caught in a web of conspiracies, media deception, and underground resistance.