Practical
Wednesday, 11 February, 2026
- 19:00 until 20:45
Cinema RITCS
Antoine Dansaertstraat 70
1000 Brussels
Antoine Dansaertstraat 70
1000 Brussels
Tickets are available through the Cinema RITCS website for € 8, with a discounted rate of € 4 for students and € 6 for RITCS staff, RITCS alumni, job seekers, and seniors (65+). Cineville ticket holders can attend for free but must still reserve a ticket.
Neptune Frost (2021) by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, is an Afrofuturist sci-fi punk musical that brings together music, poetry and speculative fiction. Set in the hills of Burundi, the film follows a group of escaped coltan miners who form an anti-colonial hacker collective in a landscape built from electronic waste. Their world reveals the toxic afterlife of a global tech industry shaped by centuries of extractive practices. From this fragile terrain, they resist the authoritarian powers that continue to exploit their labour and their land.
At the center of the film are Neptune, an intersex runaway, and Matalusa, an escaped miner. When their paths cross, their connection disrupts the world around them in ways that feel both digital and spiritual. Moving between dream and waking life, past and present, the film explores how discarded technologies might be reimagined rather than reinforcing the colonial patterns that shape our digital world.
Program
19:00 - Introduction
19:10 - Film screening (105')
20:45 - End
Tickets
Tickets are available through the Cinema RITCS website for € 8, with a discounted rate of € 4 for students and € 6 for RITCS staff, RITCS alumni, job seekers, and seniors (65+). Cineville ticket holders can attend for free but must still reserve a ticket.
Part of The Foragers
The Foragers: Engagements Beyond The Human is an interdisciplinary art and science project that reimagines foraging (the gathering of edible or useful materials in one’s immediate surroundings) as a creative and ecological practice. Between October 2025 and December 2027, a series of activities invites you to rediscover your connection with the environment, not only in nature but also in unexpected places across the city and its edges.
The series is curated by historian Benoît Henriet (VUB), artist Gosie Vervloessem, and VUB Crosstalks.
This event is organized in collaboration with Cinema RITCS, with the support of the EUTOPIA interuniversity alliance and the Faculty Languages and Humanities of the VUB.
The world needs you
This initiative is part of VUB's public programme, a programme for everyone who believes that scientific knowledge, critical thinking and dialogue are an important first step to create impact in the world.
As an Urban Engaged University, VUB aims to be a driver of change in the world. With our academic edcuational programmes and innovative research, we contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and to making a difference locally and globally.