Welcome to another episode of the Scene 2 Seen podcast! This is your host Valerie Complex and I’m back with another exciting episode.
This week I am talking The frost of Neptune Co-directors American poet, musician and actor Saul Williams and actress and playwright Anisia Uzeiman. Frost The world premiere took place last summer in the bi-weekly directing section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, before being screened in Toronto and the NYFF last fall.
The action of the film takes place in the highlands of Burundi, where a group of hackers emerge from a mining community, which is the result of a love story between a miner and an intersex fugitive. Between the states of being – past and present, dream and wakefulness, colonized and free, man and woman, memory and prophecy –cold neptuneThis is a call for technological recovery for progressive political purposes. The film offers a combination of many themes, ideas and songs that Williams explored in her work, most notably her 2016 album. The martyr defeated the king.
Williams made her acting debut in Mark Levine Slam, which she wrote. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Cannes Camera d’Or in 1998. Saul made his Broadway debut in 2014 as a lead actor in the film Holler If Ya Hear Me, based on the poems of Tupac Shakur. Saul has published five books of poetry which have been translated into various languages. As a musician, Saul has released six albums and tours and has collaborated with artists such as: Kanye West, Nas, Janelle Monae, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, The Roots,
Anisia Uzeiman is an actress, playwright and director. Born in Rwanda, she studied acting at the French Higher School of Theater. Her directorial debut Dreamstates was shot entirely on iPhone and starred Saul Williams, William Nadilam and Bo List. The film premiered at LAFF in 2016. She has also shot numerous music videos. Her first book, Poetic Edition of her original screenplay Saolomea, Saolomea Edition Not a Cult will be released this fall.
Listen to this episode because Williams and Uzeiman, what they say about the film and their experience at the Cannes Film Festival last year, is truly shocking.
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