August Movie Nights: “Neptune Frost”

Tuesday August 6th
Doors and drinks 6pm; Film starts at 6.30pm

As part of our August Movie Nights series we're screening "Neptune Frost", an Afrofuturist, sci-fi punk musical directed by musician Saul Williams and Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman.

"Neptune Frost" (2022, 1hr 50mins) 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 region's 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.

Film-makers description: "Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonised 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."

From the Guardian review: “Exhilarating, dazzling inventive...a denunciation of the western techno-centric order....Conveying its indignation in oblique poetic outpourings and songs that switch freely between Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French and English, it tirelessly calls everything into question: sexual identity, western hegemony, whether technology is a substitute for action."

"Mind-bending" - The New York Times
"Hauntingly beautiful and deeply enigmatic” - Variety
“One of the most extraordinarily original cinema experiences of the year” - The Wrap
"A queer, anarchic, and optimistic vision of the future” - Pitchfork
“A sensory delight… bursting with life and ingenuity” - Indiewire.

Huge thanks to Anti-Worlds Releasing for making this screening possible.

Thanks also to Josh Appignanesi for the suggestion. If there's a film you think we should screen as part of our August Movie Nights series, please email zoe@Kairos.London.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6pm for drinks. Film starts at 6.30pm. Followed by supper and informal discussion.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter. Food and drinks complimentary.

Before requesting a discounted ticket, please consider sincerely: Are you struggling to meet your basic needs? Would you have to make a genuine sacrifice to buy a full priced ticket? Do you have reduced earnings through a lifestyle choice or because you’re dedicating your time to unpaid work relating to the climate and nature crises?