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Each story has a beginning, just as each has many interpretations, like dreams. For Neptune Frost<\/em>, that story begins with an ending. More specifically, the death of Neptune’s grandmother. In the afterglow of life and the religious importance of moving on from the mortal plain, a comment from Neptune, played by both Cheryl Isheja and Elvis Ngabo, feels poignant: “my life never felt like my own.”<\/p>\n

From here, it’s into the cobalt mines we go, where colonialism takes new form as workers extract cobalt and other precious materials – the same ones that power the electronic devices you’re reading this article on right now – mostly for richer Western countries without the benefits being felt at home. For all these countries have found independence, capitalism has ensured the old power dynamics remain: border disputes replaced by dollar signs and executive bonuses paid for by Rwandan and African labor slaving away for their new-age masters.<\/p>\n

One of them is murdered simply for taking a rest.<\/p>\n

Surely there’s a way to break this cycle. A way to turn the electronic tools of oppression into the tools of liberation. To not just take control of their labor and their lives but to hack the system, picture a dream, and dare to live it. An idea can turn into a community that can turn into a movement that can turn into genuine change. It’s a chance to become a catalyst for systemic, revolutionary change, a MartyrLoserKing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Neptune Frost<\/em> is dense, a film and musical like few others. Even describing it as a movie would be inaccurate. For artists and directors Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, the \u201cfilm\u201d of Neptune Frost<\/em> is just part of a multimedia project encompassing the music and graphic novel, first brought to realization with the MartyrLoserKing<\/em> album released by Williams in 2016 and a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2018.<\/p>\n

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