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Anxious to use artificial intelligent robots to improve the world, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton), a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a “live” brew she is growing in her computer.

The Cover of Jackie Stacey's The Cinematic Life of the Gene: A Still From Teknolust

So begins the synopsis of Teknolust, Lynn’s independent science fiction film about love in the age of cloning. It is the subject, along with other classic films like Alien: Resurrection and Gattaca, of feminist theorist Jackie Stacey’s new book The Cinematic Life of the Gene.

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Microcinema International has announced its catalog of releases for 2010, which will offer not one, not two, but THREE ways to get your paws on a piece of Lynn’s cinematic oeuvre!

Lynn Hershman Leeson in stills from Binge (l), and First Person Plural (r), both from The Electronic Diaries Series

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Well, for starters, the Houston Cinema Arts Society hosted its annual Cinema Arts Festival, a five-day celebration of innovative and inspiring media. Sounds like a place where Lynn might be found, no?

Lynn and husband George at an event honoring screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, part of the 2009 Houston Cinema Arts Festival

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Gene Ware (L) and Tilda Swinton (R) in stills from "Curing the Vampire"

An insatiable thirst has drained global resources. Gluttony has taken its toll on the world. Vampiristic irresponsibility is on the rise.

So begins Lynn’s introduction to a series of webisodes, commissioned by the Tate Modern, entitled Curing the Vampire. Although they were produced in early 2008, in this media moment saturated with bloodsucker frenzy from Twilight to True Blood, with echoes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer still reverberating through popular culture, Curing the Vampire deserves to be resurrected (so to speak) as a call to arms for the revitalization of the world’s intellectual and creative resources.

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