For June’s Shadow Kitchen Gathering, we welcome filmmaker Meredith Lackey and her latest film Cable Street!

Cable Street (which premiered at Sundance this year) is an experimental short documentary that follows the planning, manufacturing, and installation of a submarine fiber optic cable system (designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies) that enables communication between an expert and a machine.  Time succumbs to space in a ‘New Cold War’ played out in technological materials — Cable Street renders the materiality of a network.

Originally from Cleveland (currently based in LA), Meredith’s upbringing amidst the decline of factory jobs and steel inspired her to think about the technological and economical future.  After earning her MFA in Film from the University of Illinois Chicago, she traveled around the world with Huawei Technologies to study the physical internet. Her work shows how power and politics affect technology. 

At this meet-up we will screen Cable Street along with a selection of past works, followed by a discussion + Q&A with Meredith.

Join us at Coaxial with Meredith Lackey for a screening of her film CABLESTREET + a B-Sides presentation and multimedia epilogue excursion after the cable lands in Cambodia!

I’m happy to be hosted by SHADOW KITCHEN for a screening of my short film, Cablestreet, followed by a live narrated excursion into liaising with hackers in the field. 

Screening at 8PM, Coaxial, 1815 S Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90016

Please forward to LA friends who may be interested, and if you can’t make it, check out Cablestreet on Hyperallergic.