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Neptune Frost

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Kino Lorber
'Neptune Frost' is an Afrofuturist Musical based in Rwanda
06/13/2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Cost: $7
CL RECOMMENDS
CL Critic Curt Holman Recommends: Artist Saul Williams and playwright Anisia Uzeyman direct this Afrofuturist sci-fi musical set in a Rwandan village. — CH

From the venue:

Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this stunning Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album ‘MartyrLoserKing.’ Co-directed with his partner, the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources—and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Set between states of being—past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience—Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends. (Partially subtitled)
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