Neptune Frost – Co-director Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman

NEPTUNE FROST is a multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary from the hearts and minds of artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman. They bring their 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, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with his partner, the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Uzeyman, NEPTUNE FROST 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 co-directors Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman bring an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.

 

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:
Cannes’ Directors Fortnight,
Toronto International Film Festival,
The New York Film Festival,
BFI London,
Sundance Film Festival

100% on RottenTomatoes

“Transmitting a massive download of ideas into one film, there’s no doubt that Williams and Uzeyman have creativity to spare, and they deserve all the support they can get to share it with the world.” – Jude Dry, indieWire

“The future of Black film… Pure cinematic power.” – Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter

“It does not court our understanding, it does not make following easy, but it does whisper to us and spark connections. In that way, it is like a dream: fitful, feverish, promising.” – Lisa Kennedy, Variety

“Dizzyingly inventive… [with] fierce originality and punk iconoclasm. A wholly original piece of world-building.” – Wendy Ide, Screen Daily 

“A future cult classic in the making.” – Dustin Chang, Screen Anarchy

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