Teknolust. 2002. Written and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson

Film

No upcoming events

Teknolust. 2002. Written and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Courtesy of Strand Releasing

Teknolust. 2002. USA. Written and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. With Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, John O’Keefe, Karen Black. 35mm. 85 min.

Tilda Swinton plays four different roles in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s hilarious, genre-breaking, sexual biogenetic comedy: scientist Rosetta Stone and Ruby, Olive, and Marine, three clones (part human, part computer) who long to free themselves from their intranet and live in the real world. Fed on doses of human sperm procured by Ruby (a promiscuous version of Rosetta’s virgin scientist who takes inspiration from classic Hollywood romances to seduce men and feed her sisters), the alter egos end up threatening human existence by causing male impotence due to technical malfunctions in their own biotechnological systems.

This film accompanies Lynn Hershman Leeson: Moving-Image Innovator.

Past events

Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].