| Aja, Tokitoh Ayumu
Taiwanese-born experimental filmmaker
Shu Lea Cheang directs this dizzying computer-enhanced sci-fi cyber-porn
flick. A pun that roughly translates from Japanese as "I'm
coming!", the title aptly sets the film's orgasmic tone. The
story, as such, revolves around the GENOM Corporation, which has
started mass-producing sexbots for the lofty purpose of bettering
humankind's sexual development. Reiko (Tokitoh Ayumu) is one such
cyborg; her body being one giant "Gen-XXX IKU Coder" hard
drive, she is burdened with the task of collecting "orgasm
data" by shagging everything that moves. Set against some brilliantly
bizarre digitally-animated set pieces, the film's characters couple,
triple, and so forth with remarkable indifference to gender, species,
or physiological make-up. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance
Film Festival. |