Neptune Frost (DVD)

Multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman bring
their unique dynamism to the Afrofuturist vision of Neptune Frost. It
is a sci-fi-punk-musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of
themes, ideas, and songs that they have been exploring in their work,
including on Williams’ 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. 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 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.