Fresh Kill

Fresh Kill
Directed byShu Lea Cheang
Written byJessica Hagedorn
Produced byJennifer Fong
Shari Frilot
Starring
CinematographyJane Castle
Edited byLauren Zuckerman
Music byVernon Reid
Production
companies
Airwaves Project
ITVS
Film4 Productions
Distributed byStrand Releasing
Release dates
  • April 23, 1994 (1994-04-23) (USA Film Festival)
  • January 12, 1996 (1996-01-12) (United States)
Running time
80 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[1]
LanguageEnglish

Fresh Kill is a 1994 British-American experimental film directed by Shu Lea Cheang and written by Jessica Hagedorn. It stars Sarita Choudhury and Erin McMurtry as Shareen Lightfoot and Claire Mayakovsky, two lesbian parents who are drawn into a corporate conspiracy involving the Fresh Kills Landfill. Fresh Kill was an official selection at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and is noted for its influence on hacker subculture, with an article about the film for the now-defunct hacker publication InfoNation containing one of the first uses of the term "hacktivism".

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