New Restored 35mm Print! Filmmaker in Person!
Co-Presented with Strictly Brohibited and Wicked Queer!

The place is New York City and the time is now(ish). Raw fish lips are the rage on trendy menus across Manhattan. A ghost barge, bearing nuclear refuse, circles the planet in search of a willing port. Household pets start to glow ominously and then disappear altogether. The sky opens up and snows soap flakes. People start speaking in dangerous tongues. This stylized, avant-anarcho-ecosatire, envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus and suffering the toxic repercussions of mass marketing in a high-tech commodity culture. FRESH KILL tells the story of two young lesbian parents caught up in a battle over the global exchange of industrial waste when their child disappears after eating contaminated fish. A riveting and densely packed film, FRESH KILL was perhaps too ahead of its time when The Brattle premiered it thirty years ago but it has since become a cult classic that feels even more resonant today.