Saul William’s fantastic musical feature Neptune Frost (2022), sets the tone for the coalition series “Hacking Time Mines”. In the Afrofuturistic sci-fi musical, the mythical encounter of a miner and the intersex Neptune sparks a hacker community’s rebellion against neo-colonialism and gender restrictions. Neptune Frost is a thrilling exploration of queerness, romance, collective resistance and the role of the medium of music within it. Its non-linear narrative modes, blurring the lines between dreams and reality, in-between the past, the present and the future, make it a vivid example of cyclical temporality that is rooted in African and Afro-diasporic cosmologies. There are many genealogical traces to Afrofuturist visionary Sun Ra’s brilliant sci-fi movie Space is the Place (1973). Space is the Place looks outward, beyond the earthly confines, and takes music as a vehicle for space travel, as well as a hacker’s device, to decode and recode the dominant scripts of reality. Sun Ra sees himself, as an African American, as being left out of Eurocentric history books – as his story – and is rather interested in mystery that he … read more
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LOBI KUNA
Matthias De Groof
Belgium, Congo 2018 | 46 Min. | engl. subtitled
Belgium, Congo 2018 | 46 Min. | engl. subtitled
Sun, 21-May-23 04:30 PM
Q&A via Zoom with:
Matthias De Groof, Mehkar Azari Kiyoso
Matthias De Groof, Mehkar Azari Kiyoso

MULIKA
Maisha Maene
Congo 2022 | 14 Min. | engl. subtitled
Congo 2022 | 14 Min. | engl. subtitled
Sun, 21-May-23 04:30 PM
Q&A with:
Maisha Maene
Maisha Maene

NEPTUNE FROST
Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Rwanda, USA 2021 | 105 Min. | engl. subtitled
Rwanda, USA 2021 | 105 Min. | engl. subtitled
Sat, 20-May-23 03:00 PM
Q&A with:
Maisha Maene, Pius Vögele (Uni Basel)
Maisha Maene, Pius Vögele (Uni Basel)

PUMZI
Wanuri Kahiu
Kenya 2009 | 21 Min. | engl. subtitled
Kenya 2009 | 21 Min. | engl. subtitled
Sun, 21-May-23 04:30 PM

SPACE IS THE PLACE
John Coney
USA 1974 | 85 Min. | engl. subtitled
USA 1974 | 85 Min. | engl. subtitled
Fri, 19-May-23 10:00 PM
Q&A with:
Pius Vögele
Pius Vögele

TERRA MATER
Kantarama Gahigiri
Rwanda, Switzerland 2019 | 10 Min. | engl. subtitled
Rwanda, Switzerland 2019 | 10 Min. | engl. subtitled
Sat, 20-May-23 03:00 PM
Q&A with:
Cheryl Isheja (via zoom), Kantarama Gahigiri (via zoom), Pius Vögele (Uni Basel)
Cheryl Isheja (via zoom), Kantarama Gahigiri (via zoom), Pius Vögele (Uni Basel)
