Neptune Frost (19:30, Cinema ZED)
Friday 26 April, 19:30
Cinema ZED Vesalius, Andreas Vesaliusstraat 9c, 3000 Leuven
NEPTUNE FROST
Anisia Uzeyman & Saul Williams / U.S., Rwanda / 2021 / 105 min.
Cast: Cheryl Isheja, Kaya Free, Eliane Umuhire, Dorcy Rugamba, Rebecca Mucyo, Treso Niyongabo, Elvis Ngabo
VO: Kinyarwanda, English, Swahili, French
ST: English
Neptune Frost is a dense Afro-futuristic musical full of striking identities. It combines an intersex narrative and a technological allegory embracing anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist views. The film is a collective dream, coloured in shades of blue, dancing on the edge of something transcendent.
With low budget means and maximum imagination, Uzeyman and Williams set a theatrical setting in which dream and reality alternate and time and gender are fluid phenomena. This film has everything to become a cult classic.
Followed by an interactive talk by Emmanuel Iyamu on the influence and cultural impact of African film on both a new generation of young people of colour and the Western film landscape.