Neptune Frost (2021) w/ short film Alhamdu (2021)

Film Screening:

"Neptune Frost"
(Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021, 105 min, U.S./Rwanda, DCP)

Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this 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. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman.

In the hilltops of Burundi 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.

"Critic's Pick! Mind-bending." - The New York Times

"It's a war cry that's simultaneously a galvanizing call to action, a message of hope and a reminder that a different world is possible." - Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times

View trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acfBNIXovww

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** Preceded by the short film, "ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM" (MIPSTERZ, 2021, 5 min, USA)

An ethnographic montage of a speculative Muslim future where Muslim joy is a form of resistance, a form of liberation. The sheer act of imagining a utopian existence is an act of self-preservation and survival.

-- Check out the related exhibition in the Rubenstein Arts Center, Aug 16 - Sept 18, 2022:
https://arts.duke.edu/news/alhamdu-muslim-futurism/

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