Codirected by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, who originally conceived the film as a stage play and musical, Neptune Frost provides us with an insight into diverse ways of thinking about technology and its relationship to societies of the present and the near future. With its DIY-stuck-together-headdress-Techno-sci-fi-aesthetic the film presents an interwoven and entangled vision of Community and Technology. Here, in the dreamscape and drama that the film creates, tech is on the surface, worn, visible, and powerful, giving agency to the community that the film imagines....
Blog: Neptune Frost - futures speculations for community technology
11 June 2024
For our latest blog, Matt Dowse writes about Neptune Frost, the speculative futures reading group’s first foray into film. Here he reflects on what this surreal story of power and resistance in a junk-riddled future can tell us about community tech of the present and future.
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