I.K.U + Introduction

In New Tokyo, shape-shifting android Reiko is sent on a cybersexual mission for the Genom Corporation, gathering data from a dizzying succession of erotic encounters. Moving through seven different bodies and countless configurations of desire, Reiko becomes both instrument and experiment as the Genom Corporation works towards a world where sexual pleasure can be downloaded and consumed as data. As Reiko begins to rebel against her programmed purpose, I.K.U. turns its erotic futurism into a story of sexual autonomy and resistance.

Often described as a pornographic cousin to Blade Runner, and right now arguably even more prophetic, the film made history as the first porno to be selected to screen at Sundance. A delirious cyberfeminist classic that asks us where the boundaries between human and machine, connection and commodity, might lie.

This screening will be introduced by Emily Jisoo Bowles

I.K.U, dir. Shu Lea Cheang, Japan 2000, Japanese/English with English subtitles, 90 min.