Black Film Festival To Be Presented At The Parrish

On Friday, August 19, the Parrish Art Museum and the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center (BHCCRC) continue their partnership for the third annual Black Film Festival, at the museum. The evening begins at 7 p.m. when Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of Artsreach and Special Projects , leads a tour of the current exhibition “Another Justice: US is Them.”

A reception follows at 7:30 p.m. and at 8 p.m., a screening of “Neptune Frost,” 2021, directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, will take place. Set in the hilltops of Burundi, the film tells the story of a group of escaped coltan miners who form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective as they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources and its people. “Neptune Frost” is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.

With a BA from Morehouse College and an MFA from NYU Tisch, director Saul Williams has been breaking ground since his 2001 debut album, Amethyst Rock Star, produced by Rick Rubin. After gaining global fame for his poetry and writings, Williams has performed in over 30 countries and read in over 300 universities, with invitations from the White House, the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, The Louvre, The Getty Center to countless villages, townships, community centers, and prisons across the world. Williams has gone on to record with Nine Inch Nails and Allen Ginsburg, as well as countless film and television appearances

Guests are encouraged to attend the screening decked out in their best Afropunk attire, as the Parrish celebrates the film and ideas of self-expression, music, and the arts.

Admission is $15 adults ($5 Parrish members and Friends of BHCCRC). Part II of the Black Film Festival takes place at the Parrish on August 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. with a screening of Lawrence Green’s 2018 film “Kinks, Locs, and Love.” The Parrish Art Museum is at 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill. Visit parrishart.org for details.