Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman (Neptune Frost) Present...
A curated capsule of films, selected by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, the collaborative team behind Afrofuturist marvel Neptune Frost.
“We chose SWEET BEAN, for the delicate ways Naomi’s story waves personal resilience and trauma into a quest for human connection;
THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA, for the sensual memory it left in all the people who saw it when it came out, it’s lessons of slowness and observation of little things + its memorable green;
THE IMAGE BOOK, he’s a master of text on moving images. His choice of lettering fonts are always impeccable and his color palettes are some of the most modern, expansive & experimental;
AQUARIUS, loved to follow a story that centers a woman’s desire and Sonia Braga as always ️️️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐;
LADY VENGEANCE, twin to Old Boy in so many ways but this time from Park Chan Wook’s idea of what a woman’s vengeance would look like & there are playful funny moments;
PIONEERS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA. We're curious as to which films are in this collection. We'd love to discover the works from these pioneers we've never seen!"
––Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman
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Aquarius
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Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2016 • Brazil • Clara refuses to leave her home to make way for a high-rise.
Clara lives in a low-rise apartment building close to the beach in Recife, a small city in northeast Brazil. Her well-established life is threatened by the arrival of ruthless prop...
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Lady Vengeance
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Chan Wook Park • South Korea • 2005 • A riveting South Korean thriller with a woman's perspective.
Geum-ja has been imprisoned for thirteen years for a crime she didn’t commit. While she has gained the respect and loyalty of her fellow cellmates, nothing has distracted her from p...
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Sweet Bean
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Naomi Kawase • 2015 • Japan • A heart-warming tale of food and friendship in contemporary Japan.
Sentaro runs a small bakery on the corner of a tree-lined street. Tokue is a seventy-six year old woman skilled in the art of preparing an, a traditional red bean paste in dorayaki. ...
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The Scent of Green Papaya
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Tran Anh Hung • 1993 • Vietnam
A society's slow decline tracks with a woman's romantic blossoming.
In 1950s Saigon, ten-year-old Mui obtains a job working as a servant for an affluent Vietnamese family. Ten years later, the family has fallen on hard times, leading Mui to change ...
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The Image Book
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Jean-Luc Godard • Switzerland • 2018 • Does art inform reality, or vice versa?
Fragments of cinema, canonical and obscure, fill the frame. They appear acid-washed, saturated, disintegrating. Films by Roberto Rossellini, Abderrahmane Sissako, Ridley Scott—and Godard himself—featu...
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Pioneers of African-American Cinema: An Introduction
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Six landmark films comprise this introduction to the Pioneers of African-American Cinema collection, including works by the Ebony Film Company, Spencer Williams, Oscar Micheaux, and Zora Neale Hurston.
