
Vinduet presents: Neptune Frost
Kunstnernes Hus Kino and Vinduet invite you to a screening of Neptune Frost, a modern African (cult) film classic, followed by a conversation between author and scholar Marta Mboka Tveit, Vinduet editor Priya Bains and Abirami Logendran.
In an essay in Vinduet, Mboka Tveit writes about the film, calling it "an anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist rock blasting." Based on the essay, Mboka Tveit, Logendran and Bains discuss the film's place in Afrofuturism and whose struggle it really is that is taking place in Africa's mineral mines.
About the film
Neptune is reborn at age 23 and breaks away from the society she grew up in in Burundi, which is based on mining coltan for the global technology industry. Neptune and their allies cross thresholds between parallel realities and make the world's digital technology their own. The film is a visually captivating and abstract journey open to interpretation and a strong political statement in one, both about global power and gender.
The film is directed by Anisia Uzeyman (b. 1975) and Saul Williams (b. 1972). Anisia Uzeyman is a filmmaker and actor born and raised in Rwanda. Saul Williams is an artist from New York with a long and recognized career in the independent hip-hop scene, and has done several concerts in Oslo. Neptune Frost has slowly begun to take over the world and received a regular theatrical premiere in the USA and England in the summer of 2022. In that context, Neil Kulkarni wrote in The Wire: "It's a film I'm still reeling from, because like any masterpiece, it's less about the answers it gives than the questions it raises."
In conversation
Marta Mboka Tveit is a writer and cultural researcher at the University of Oslo. She is particularly interested in identity and decolonization in the context of nature/culture and climate change. Most of her research has a cosmopolitan approach to both Nordic and African (Sub-Saharan) contemporary texts and discourses.
Priya Bains is the current editor of Vinduet, and is also active as a poet, re-poet and essayist.
Abirami Logendran is a film curator at Kunstnernes Hus Kino.
About Vinduet
Vinduet is Gyldendal's literary journal and was founded in 1947. In Vinduet you can read essays on literary themes, reviews of new and older books, interviews with authors, journalistic stories about the book industry and fiction. Since 2021, the journal has been fully digital.