Neptune Frost

Showings

State Theatre - Theatre 2 Thu, Feb 16, 2023 7:00 PM

Description

Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist punk musical that debuted at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. The story takes place in Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective and attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime. 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 – Neptune Frost is a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.

This event is presented by the Public Humanities Interns at the U-M Institute for the Humanities as part of Humanities Afrofutures, a month-long series of events during February 2023 bringing together scholars, artists and activists to reexamine the past, explore critical issues in the present, and create a space for imagining possible futures. A short discussion will follow the film.