Fluidø - Movie - Festival QUEER

Fluidø

Shu Lea Cheang
Fiction : 77' / Dystopian, Explicit Content, HIV-AIDS, Queer, Bodies

Set in the post-AIDS future of 2060, where the Government is the first to declare the era AIDS free, mutated AIDS viruses give birth to Zero Gen – humans that have genetically evolved in a very unique way. These gender fluid Zero Gens are the bio-drug carriers whose white fluid is the hypernarcotic for the 21st century. The ejaculate of these beings is intoxicating and the new form of sexual commodity in the future. A new war on drugs begins and the Zero Gen are declared illegal. The Government dispatches drug-resistant replicants for round-up arrest missions. When one of these government android’s immunity breaks down and its pleasure centers are activated, the story becomes a tangled multi-thread plot and the Zero Gens are caught among underground drug lords, glitched super agents, a scheming corporation and a corrupt government.

/ EXHIBITION

Porto

November 07 | 22h00 | Passos Manuel

Sections: QP - Carte Blanche
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/ Details

Year: 2017

Country: Germany

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Candy Flip, Bishop Black, Kristina Marlen, William E. Morris, Alexander Geist, Aérea Negrot

/ Direction

Shu Lea Cheang

Taiwan

Born in Taiwan in 1954, Shu Lea Cheang has lived and worked in the United States as well as Japan, Holland, the United Kingdom, and France. Her practice combines artistic concerns with hot-button social issues, defined by her peripatetic and information-era existence. She has been a member of the alternative media collective Paper Tiger Television since 1982 and produced public-access programs for the group addressing racism in the media. In 2001 she cofounded Kingdom of Piracy, an online work space that promotes the free sharing of digital content and ideas as an art form; this project and others are borne of her political and community-driven goals. As an artist, she has worked in a variety of mediums—film, video, installation, web spaces—her output as varied as cyberspace itself.