Neptune Frost

[asakiyume]

I just saw the Afrofuturist film Neptune Frost (2021; dir. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman), and whoa. It's pure resistance poetry from beginning to end; it fights the gender binary; it braids pessimism and resilient hopefulness, and it's *beautiful*. The music, the colors--and the languages! Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, and English. Amazing.

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Here's how one review summarizes it:

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.

It's a pretty stream-of-consciousness film, but you don't need to be able to connect all the dots to love the experience.

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

I adore Saul but have not yet seen it!

[sartorias]

Noting!

[minoanmiss]

This sounds amazing. I really want to explore more Afrofuturism for obvious reasons. How did you access the movie?

[yamamanama]

It took me a few seconds to realize that wasn't Japanese, it's stylized Latin.

[ivy]

This looks amazing! Thanks for pointing at it.