Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food.
Direction
Shu Lea Cheang's chaotic, tactile digital-analog hybrid vision.
Production
Zero budget, maximum ambition — Staten Island as dystopian playground.
Writing
Dialogue that feels improvised and urgent, like it might explode.
Director
Shu Lea Cheang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made by Cyberfeminist collective, this is peak '90s queer DIY cinema — part of a movement that believed hacking and art could dismantle patriarchy.
The 'nuclear ghost ship' was real: the Khian Sea waste disposal scandal, where toxic ash was dumped on Haitian beaches. Cheang fictionalized actual environmental racism.
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