Welcome to a different episode of the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! It’s your host Valerie Complicated and I’m again with one other thrilling episode.
This week, I discuss to Neptune Frost co-directors American poet, musician, and actor Saul Williams, and actress, playwright Anisia Uzeyman. Frost had its world premiere final summer time within the Administrators’ Fortnight part of the Cannes Movie Competition in 2021, earlier than screening at Toronto and NYFF throughout fall of final 12 months.
The movie takes place amid the hilltops of Burundi, the place a collective of pc hackers emerges from a mining group, the results of a romance between a miner and an intersex runaway. Set between states of being—previous and current, dream and waking life, colonized and free, female and male, reminiscence and prescience—Neptune Frost is a name to reclaim expertise for progressive political ends. The movie provides an amalgamation of most of the themes, concepts and songs Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing.
Williams He made his performing debut in Marc Levin’s Slam, which he co-wrote. The movie gained Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Digital camera D’Or in 1998. In 2014, Saul made his Broadway debut because the lead in Holler If Ya Hear Me, primarily based on the lyrics of Tupac Shakur. Saul has revealed 5 books of poetry which have been translated into a number of languages. As a musician, Saul has launched six albums and toured and collaborated with artists together with: Kanye West, Nas, Janelle Monae, 9 Inch Nails, Rage In opposition to The Machine, The Roots,
Anisia Uzeyman is an actress, playwright and director. Born in Rwanda, she studied drama on the Superior Faculty of Theater in France. Her directorial debut Dreamstates was shot totally on iPhones and starred Saul Williams, William Nadylam and Beau Sia. The movie premiered on the LAFF in 2016. She has additionally directed quite a few music movies. Her first e-book, a poetic therapy of her unique screenplay Saolomea, Saolomea shall be revealed by Not a Cult this fall.
Pay attention in to this episode as a result of Williams and Uzeyman the issues they are saying concerning the movie and their expertise on the Cannes Movie Competition final 12 months are really stunning.
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