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Shu Lea Cheang and Jigna Desai on FRESH KILL

Fresh Kill • 39m

Following a thirtieth-anniversary screening of FRESH KILL at the University of California, Santa Barbara, artist-director Shu Lea Cheang speaks with professor Jigna Desai about the film’s continued relevance as well as its environmental and political concerns.

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