hacking time mines

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 … mehr