Neptune Frost

Showings

Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Fri, Jun 3, 2022 7:30 PM
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Sat, Jun 4, 2022 5:00 PM
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Fri, Jun 10, 2022 7:30 PM
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Sat, Jun 11, 2022 5:00 PM
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Fri, Jun 17, 2022 7:30 PM
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Sat, Jun 18, 2022 5:00 PM
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Fri, Jun 24, 2022 7:30 PM
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema Sat, Jun 25, 2022 5:00 PM

Description

In an otherworldly e-waste camp made of recycled computer parts, a subversive hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources--and its people. When an intersex runaway (Neptune, played by both Elvis Ngabo and Cheryl Isheja) and an escaped coltan miner (Matalusa, played by Kaya Free) find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. With hypnotic visuals and original songs composed by musician and co-director Saul Williams, this celestial cyber-musical offers a radically bold vision of power, exploitation, and love.

What the critics are saying:

A heady, visually stimulating, sci-fi musical extravaganza... Neptune Frost pulsates to a rhythmic beat and the musical sequences are fabulous. So too, are the makeup and costumes (one character sports a jacket made from a disassembled computer keyboard).                

An Afrofuturist musical that's both a queer love story and a call to action, this is a great example of art that's revolutionary in form as well as subject.                

Drew Gregory
Autostraddle

Transmitting a massive download of ideas into one film, there's no doubt that Williams and Uzeyman have creativity to spare, and they deserve all the support they can get to share it with the world.                

Jude Dry
indieWire