Fluidø, Shu Lea Cheang, 2017
It is the year 2060 and AIDS has been eradicated. However, in some, the HIV virus has now mutated into a gene from which a drug can be produced that has become the white powder of the twentyfirst century. With a virtually supported scanning system, the secret police are trying to identify anyone who carries this gene. Filmed in Berlin, Taiwanborn multimedia artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheangs science fiction dystopia revolves around a struggle to gain control over the production and exploitation of bodily fluids. Her film is like an orgiastic opera; a breathless round of bodies, secretions, performances, and sexual acts often performed in the service of an overriding economy. An unusual, largely experimental, and deliberately para pornographic drama in which the borders between the sexes, as well as homo, hetero, bi, trans or intersexual, are constantly blurred.
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