December 2023
NEPTUNE FROST
"Dolor y Gloria"
105 mins, Rwanda / US , 2021, Age Rating:
Dir: Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
Showing: 8.45pm 6 Dec 2023 in the W Cinema
Starring: Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse
"Kaya Free," Eliane Umuhire, Dorcy Rugamba, Rebecca Mucyo, Trésor Niyongabo, Eric Ngangare “1Key,” Natacha Muziramakenga, Elvis Ngabo "Bobo,"with the special participation of Cécile Kayirebwa
Language: Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, and English with English Subtitles
Multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman bring
their unique dynamism to the Afrofuturist vision of Neptune Frost. It is a scifi 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 Frosttakes 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 toreclaim technology for progressive political ends.