Black Cinema Collective, Wa Na Wari and Northwest Film Forum present this screening to mark the occasion of The Motherboard Suite at Meany Center (Saturday, April 1st at 8pm), with music by Saul Williams.

Saul Williams will be in attendance for a discussion after the film on Sunday, April 2nd at 7pm!

(Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman, Rwanda & US, 2021, 105 min, in English, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili & French with English subtitles)

** Co-presented with Black Cinema Collective, Meany Center & Wa Na Wari! **

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, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with his partner, the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film 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 is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.

Synopsis and stills courtesy of Kino Lorber.

“A mesmerizing Afropunk odyssey hacking at the boundaries of gender, technology, and class.” – Toussaint Egan, Polygon

“A percussive, transcendental Afrofuturist musical… sounds out with force and clarity.” – Charles Bramesco, Little White Lies

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