,"Neptune Frost" is billed as an Afrofuturist musical, which Williams sort of agrees with.
"I would say that the term Afrofuturism has been a helpful tool for people to kind of learn how to articulate what they're experiencing when they are experiencing a film that is projecting ideas of the Black experience that is not necessarily related to the oppressive or colonial or imperialistic past," Williams said."Neptune Frost," directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, serves up an Afrofuturist musical.
"Neptune Frost" is a cinematic poem that provides a radically different and visually stunning window on the Black experience. It's a science fiction musical shot in Rwanda with an entirely Rwandan and Burundian cast and crew. "It is the invention of a language that is cohesive to me, which depicts a kind of surreality in an ordinary world. So it is ethereal, but it's at the same time epic. And I thought that we could oscillate between intimacy and more choreographed and large-scope of framing. So it's really the story and the music that led, and it is a journey, too. So you also accompany, are walking with people that are going through a very important journey," Uzeyman said.