The CLIC research group will be organising a film screening of Neptune Frost (2021) at Cinema RITCS, Brussels, as part of Pierre-Philippe Fraiture's EUTOPIA visit to VUB in February 2026. Neptune Frost by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman is an Afrofuturist sci-fi punk musical. 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.
CLIC-MERLIT Researcher, Josephine Delali Ofei will deliver a short introduction before the screening. For further details on the screening, including how to register, please visit the dedicated website. For more information on Josephine's research, Heroes in 21st Century Afrofuturist Mediascapes, please follow the link.
