Event
Neptune Frost [In-Person Only]
Wed Mar 29: 7.30pm PDT
Thu Mar 30: 7.30pm PDT
Fri Mar 31: 7.00pm PDT
Sat Apr 01: 4.00pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT
Sun Apr 02: 4.00pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT
Screenings of Neptune Frost are priced on a sliding scale, $5-25.
*** Content Warning ***
Police brutality; strobing and flashing lights that may affect photosensitive viewers.
*** Public Safety Notice ***
NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations at bit.ly/nwffcovidsafety
*** Black Cinema Collective, Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Wa Na Wari and Northwest Film Forum have collaborated to co-present this screening of NEPTUNE FROST to mark the occasion of The Motherboard Suite being performed at Meany Center (Saturday, April 1st at 8pm), with music by Saul Williams. ***
Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical thats a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with his partner, the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the regions natural resources and its people. 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, memory and prescience - Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.
Synopsis courtesy of Kino Lorber.
(Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman, Rwanda & US, 2021, 105 min, in English, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili & French with English subtitles)
*** Praise for Neptune Frost ***
"A mesmerizing Afropunk odyssey hacking at the boundaries of gender, technology, and class." - Toussaint Egan, Polygon
"A percussive, transcendental Afrofuturist musical sounds out with force and clarity." - Charles Bramesco, Little White Lies
"The future of Black film. Pure cinematic power." - Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter
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1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at maria@nwfilmforum.org
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