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Teknolust
Actress Tilda Swinton and director Lynn Hershman-Leeson lead post-film discussion
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Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson
USA/Germany/UK, 2002
Color
85 Minutes
Show Times:
Sun., Nov. 15 3:30 PM
Among Tilda Swinton´s several collaborations with media artist Lynn Hershman-Leeson (including Conceiving Ada and Strange Culture), this unique cyber-sci-fi gem has been growing the most in its cult film status. Swinton plays not one but four roles. As biogeneticist Rosetta Stone, she devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a "live" brew she is growing in her computer. She succeeds in breeding three Self Replicating Automatons—S.R.A.s—that look human but are intelligent machines. She names them Ruby, Marine, and Olive (Tildas 2, 3, and 4). To survive, the S.R.A.s need injections of male Y chromosomes found only in spermatozoa. Rosetta programs Ruby while she sleeps to absorb the images and dialogue of classic movie seductions, which have their intended effect in eliciting "donations" from men during the day. But the men are infected by a rash (shaped like a barcode) from their unprotected sex with a cyberhuman. Will Rosetta and Ruby manage to evade the health investigators (James Urbaniak and Karen Black) on the trail of the STD? Will Ruby be able to continue her quest to experience human art, spirituality, and ultimately love with the perfect Kinko´s copy boy (Jeremy Davies)?
Admission: $6
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This film is part of the Cinema Arts Festival Houston film series.
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