Black Film Club Collective + Dark Matter Present: Juneteenth Screening

Schedule

Sat Jun 13 2026 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC-05:00
Location

Elastic Arts | Chicago, IL

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Juneteenth Screening: Neptune Frost + Featured Poet
About this Event

In honor of Juneteenth, join us for a special screening of Neptune Frost, followed by a conversation and featured performance by a guest poet.

Set in a futuristic e-waste camp between dreamscape and revolution, Neptune Frost is a visionary Afro-futurist musical that blends technology, liberation, gender expansiveness, spirituality, and resistance. Directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, the film imagines a world where those pushed to the margins become architects of a new future.

Through stunning visuals, music, and poetic storytelling, Neptune Frost asks urgent questions about extraction, freedom, collective power, and the possibilities of self-determination. As we commemorate Juneteenth—a celebration of Black liberation and an ongoing reflection on freedom's unfinished work—the film offers a powerful lens through which to consider the intersections of technology, identity, memory, and resistance.

Following the screening, a featured poet will respond to themes from the film, creating space for reflection, dialogue, and collective imagining.

Film: Neptune Frost (2021)

Run Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Genre: Afro-futurist Musical / Science Fiction / Experimental Cinema

Come prepared for a cinematic experience that is as much a poem as it is a film—one that invites us to dream beyond the systems we inherit and imagine the worlds we might build together.

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Where is it happening?

Elastic Arts, 3429 West Diversey Avenue, Chicago, United States

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Tickets

USD 12.51 to USD 17.85

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