A gallery screening of multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams' award winning afro-futuristic cyberpunk film Neptune Frost, hosted by Touki – a revolutionary art collective.
“A percussive, transcendental Afrofuturist musical… sounds out with force and clarity.” Charles Bramesco, Little White Lies
Lydgalleriet is delighted to continue its collaboration with Touki to present an evening of sonic and visual experiments and discussions – join us for snacks and a movie, and discussions around technology and liberation, decolonisation and queerness.
About Neptune Frost
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 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.
Editor: Anisha Acharya
Costume Designer: Cedric Mizero
Cinematographer: Anisia Uzeyman
Writer: Saul Williams
Composer: Saul Williams