Presented by the Chan Centre in partnership with The Cinematheque

Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s formally daring, sonically dazzling Afrofuturist musical in conjunction with the Chan Centre EXP’s concert ​“Black Futures,” featuring Saul Williams, Moor Mother, and Irreversible Entanglements.

Set in a sci-fi Burundi that portals into strange, interdimensional realms, Neptune Frost tells of two cosmically connected runaways—an intersex hacker and a coltan miner—who, together with an enclave of computer-foraging cyberpunks, seed a techno-revolution to topple industry and oppression. The anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, bracingly queer work is the latest installment of American hip-hop poet Williams’s ​“MartyrLoserKing” multimedia project. The film’s pulsating songs are drawn largely from his 2016 album.

The ravishing cinematography, bathed in glow-stick neon hues, is by William’s co-director (and wife) Uzeyman. Indigenous electronic collective The Halluci Nation (fka A Tribe Called Red) has a production credit, as does Lin-Manuel Miranda. In Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, and English with English subtitles.

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Cinematheque Film Screenings: This event is part of a series of film screenings that have been curated to accompany Chan Centre performances. Neptune Frost is presented in conjunction with Black Futures: Saul Williams / Moor Mother / Irreversible Entanglements on February 25.