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In an alternative reality, people have brain implants that give them access to encoded physiological experiences from other bodies. These implants allow people to obtain information from the brain through monitoring or scanning, and also to send information to the brain in the form of neuro-codes. The neurosex-codes are programmed to provide the user with any imaginable sexual experience by any kind of body, regardless of genitalia or any other physical difference. This third film from the Neurosex Pornoia series explores the neuroanarchoqueer community and state laboratories that are running medical experiments.
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.
