AFTP Film Fest: Neptune Frost

​"Automation for the People" is a Embassy residency program for provocation and prefiguration about how technology can serve the common good. Fellows engage in self-directed projects, discussion and research on topics in this broad range, and Embassy serves as a porous container to catalyze spontaneous collaboration and inspiration.

​As part of this residency, we will be hosting a series of five films relating to collectivism, technology, and relationality, to inform and inspire the direction of our work.

The third entry in the <AFTP> Film Fest is Neptune Frost (2021, Rwanda):

In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

The full schedule is as follows:

• ​Unrest (Wed August 19, 7:30pm)

• ​After Yang (Wed August 26, 7:30pm)

• ​Neptune Frost (Wed September 2, 7:30pm)

• ​Manufactured Landscapes (Wed September 9, 7:30pm)

• ​All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Wed September 16, 7:30pm)