Neptune Frost - SECOND SCREENING ADDED!

Showings

The Roxy Theater Screen 3 Mon, Aug 22, 2022 7:30 PM
The Roxy Theater Screen 2 Thu, Aug 25, 2022 5:30 PM
Film Info
Series:MTFF Presents
Run Time:105 min
Release Year:2022
Country:Rwanda
Genre:Science Fiction/Musical
Original Language:Kinyarwanda, English, Swahili, French
Subtitles:Subtitled
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Cast Members:Cheryl Isheja, Kaya Free, Eliane Umuhire
Writers:Saul Williams

Description

Montana Film Festival Presents a monthly offering in modern & classic independent cinema, culminating in a 4-day festival October 13 - 16, 2022. Keep up with MTFF at montanafilmfestival.org.

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. 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.

Presented a second time!