Shu Lea Cheang merges live action with animation generated with gaming software in UKI, a parable of resilience demonstrating the continued vitality of the director’s forward-thinking, boundary-pushing vision.
“Cheang weaves a neon tapestry of orgies, ‘vintage’ CGI and probing questions about the nature of humanity, all set to a soundtrack of jackin’ techno grooves…”—Screen Slate
Shu Lea Cheang probes the commodification of pleasure—and explores the seamier implications of Blade Runner—in the tale of Reiko, a robot programmed to accumulate sexual experience for a corporation in New Tokyo. Reiko morphs through seven body types to experience a variety of couplings, then returns to the company to download her accumulated “orgasm data”—and to escape from their control. Contains explicit sexual content.
“Cheang weaves a neon tapestry of orgies, ‘vintage’ CGI and probing questions about the nature of humanity, all set to a soundtrack of jackin’ techno grooves…”—Screen Slate
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RUNNING TIME
73min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
LANGUAGE
In Japanese and English with English subtitles
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