Screening from Series Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema – Encore Presentations

Neptune Frost

Starts at $5

Thu, May 1, 2025

Jan23 NEPTUNE FROST Cyberpunk2MHL

This aesthetically daring science-fiction musical—written and co-directed by artist and musician Saul Williams—opens in the coltan mines of Burundi, East Africa, where laborers extract this precious resource for use in mobile phones, smartwatches, and laptops. Recognizing they’ve been exploited as drastically as their land has been, the laborers form an underground band of anti-colonialist hackers and set up camp in an e-waste dump of obsolescent technologies. A futuristic fable with a powerful punk ethos, this genre-defying work reminds us of the political power we have at our fingertips and our collective responsibility to hold power to account.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

2021 | 105 min | USA/Rwanda/France/Canada/UK | Color | Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English | Not rated | DCP

DIRECTED BY: Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman

WRITTEN BY: Saul Williams

WITH: Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Kaya Free, Eliane Umuhire

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