Film screening of Neptune Frost, an Afrofuturist sci-fi musical about resistance, digital debris and reclaiming what’s been left behind.
Neptune Frost (2021) by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, is an Afrofuturist sci-fi punk musical that brings together music, poetry and speculative fiction. Set in the hills of Burundi, the film follows a group of escaped coltan miners who form an anti-colonial hacker collective in a landscape built from electronic waste. Their world reveals the toxic afterlife of a global tech industry shaped by centuries of extractive practices. From this fragile terrain, they resist the authoritarian powers that continue to exploit their labour and their land.
At the center of the film are Neptune, an intersex runaway, and Matalusa, an escaped miner. When their paths cross, their connection disrupts the world around them in ways that feel both digital and spiritual. Moving between dream and waking life, past and present, the film explores how discarded technologies might be reimagined rather than reinforcing the colonial patterns that shape our digital world.
Screened as part of The Foragers, Neptune Frost asks you to pay attention to what usually slips out of view. Foraging is about what’s left behind, what’s overlooked, forgotten or written off. The film does the same with the debris of the digital age, turning waste into a space for connection, resistance and fresh possibilities.
PROGRAM
Date: 11 Feb 2026 – 19:00
Place: Cinema RITCS – Antoine Dansaertstraat 70, 1000 Brussels
Language: Film in Kinyarwanda, English, Swahili and French with English subtitles
19:00 – Introduction
19:10 - Film screening (105′)
20:45 – End
TICKETS
Tickets are available through the Cinema RITCS website for € 8, with a discounted rate of € 4 for students and € 6 for RITCS staff, RITCS alumni, job seekers, and seniors (65+). Cineville ticket holders can attend for free but must still reserve a ticket.
Illustration credits: film still from Neptune Frost (dir. Saul Williams)