Neptune Frost
This groundbreaking Afrofuturist musical follows a Rwandan intersex hacker and escaped miner as they form an anticolonialist collective—and a cosmic connection.
Film/Video Theater
Set between poles of past and present, dreams and waking life, male and female, Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering experience—and a call to reclaim technology for political change. The mining of tech-critical mineral coltan is largely unregulated throughout central Africa. In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped miners form a revolutionary computer hacker collective. From their headquarters in an e-waste dump, they attempt to overthrow the regime that’s exploiting the region’s citizens and natural resources. When an intersex runaway named Neptune and Matalusa, an escaped coltan miner, find each other through cosmic forces, their connection becomes the spark that catalyzes the campaign. Multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams and Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman codirect this stunning vision, described as “pure cinematic power” by the Hollywood Reporter. In Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, and English with English subtitles. (105 mins., DCP)
“Moving as well as mind-bending.”