Fresh Kill Theatrical Roadshow Tour

Shu Lea Cheang's Fresh Kill (1994) is embarking on a theatrical roadshow around the US on 35mm film, newly remastered by the Fales Library & Special Collections of New York University with the support of a National Film Preservation Foundation grant and the technical supervision of BB Optics. The self-distribution tour runs September 13 through October 15, 2024.

Accompanied by two young filmmakers—Jean-Paul Jones (Los Angeles) and Jazz Franklin (New Orleans), Cheang travels with the 35mm film print in five reels and two cans on this 20-city tour across the heartlands of America connecting to a demographically, racially, and gender diverse audience. For a new generation of audiences, the film is a provocative and timely challenge given a unique vision which hasn’t lost any of its satiric, poetic, or political edge. Fresh Kill is a highly stylized and satirical attack on neoliberal reality. The child of a young lesbian couple living on Staten Island mysteriously vanishes after consuming radiated fish. The battle to find the missing child and the culprits responsible for the disappearance is joined by a group of cyber-warriors. Everyone finds themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous media messages, and deadly cat food!

Tour dates and locations: 

Sept 13 - Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA)

Sept 14 - Scribe Video Center @ Ambler Theater (Ambler, PA)
Sept 15 - Pittsburgh Sound + Image @ Harris Theater (Pittsburgh,PA)
Sept 16 - Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio)
Sept 18 - Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY)

Sept 19 - Athens Cine (Athens, GA)

Sept 20 - PATOIS @ The Broad Theatre (New Orleans, LA)
Sept 21 - Austin Film Society (Austin, TX)
Sept 22 - Circle Cinema (Tulsa, OK)

Sept 24 - Ragtag Cinema (Columbia, MO)

Sept 25 - Music Box Theatre (Chicago, IL)

Sept 28 - Marquee Arts (Ann Arbor, MI)
Sept 30 - Stray Cat Film Center (Kansas City, MO)
Oct 02 - Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater (Omaha, NE)

Oct 05 - Guild Cinema (Albuquerque, NM)

Oct 09 - Grand Illusion Cinema (Seattle, WA)

Oct 10 - Hollywood Theatre (Portland, Oregon)

Oct 12 - Roxie (San Francisco, CA)

Oct 13 - Mezzanine @ Brain Dead Studios (Los Angeles, CA)

Oct 15 - Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)