Storyline
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 twenty-first century. With a virtually supported scanning system, secret police are trying to identify anyone who carries this gene. Filmed in Berlin, Taiwan-born multimedia artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang’s 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 parapornographic drama in which the borders between the sexes as well as homo-, hetero-, bi-, trans- or intersexual are constantly blurred.
Cast & Crew
CF
Candy Flip
Natasha
Lead
Bishop Black
Hans / Alexei
KM
Kristina Marlen
Eva
WE
William E. Morris
DI for Diva
AG
Alexander Geist
Levi
AN
Aérea Negrot
Dat Queen
AO
António Onio
Pedro
Sadie Lune
DPT
What People Are Saying
2.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Shu Lea Cheang's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Fluidø is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
