Distant Planet Project Presents: “Black Metropolis” and “Phlo”
*FREE EVENT // WORLD PREMIERES // ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE*
Featuring Afrofuturism Shorts Planet Pleasure, IWYTK (I Want You To Know), and Cottage Grove.
When: 5:00 PM
Join us for a Fielder Brothers double feature! The documentary Black Metropolis tells the history of the Afrofuturist movement through the perspective of comic artist and graphic novelist Tim Fielder.
When: 5:30 PM
Phlo is a coming-of-age horror film following a high school student from Brooklyn who is faced with a life-altering decision.
When: 7:00 PM
*Note: There will be a 30 minute break between the screening of Black Metropolis and Phlo
After the screening, Tim and Jim Fielder welcome audience feedback on the visual storytelling devices and themes used in Phlo. They’ll also share their vision and patronage to the Afrofuturist movement.
Limited space available – please RSVP to reserve your spot (CCFF passholders included!)
Reserve Tickets-
DATE
Friday, April 11, 2025 -
TIME
5:00 PM -
VENUE
The Robin Theatre -
FILMS RUNTIME
181 Minutes -
TICKETS
FREE -
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Planet Pleasure -
IWYTK (I Want You To Know)
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Cottage Grove
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Black Metropolis
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PHLO
Planet Pleasure
A popstar performs on a distant watery planet, or is it all just moistbreezy’s fantasy?
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DIRECTOR
Nicole Lipp -
YEAR
2022 -
RUNTIME
3 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
English -
COUNTRY
United States
IWYTK (I Want You To Know)
A film about friendship, road trips and the time we will never get back.
Cottage Grove
A young man struggles to communicate with his stroke-afflicted father, and at the same time, stay true to himself.
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DIRECTOR
George Ellzey Jr. -
YEAR
2023 -
RUNTIME
13 Minutes -
LANGUAGE
English -
COUNTRY
United States
Black Metropolis
Black Metropolis is a feature length Documentary about the 30+ year career of pioneering Visual-Afrofuturist and graphic novelist, Tim Fielder. Fielder blazed a path as he worked the margins of science fiction, race, and technology within the comics and concept design mediums. Featuring revaling interviews with some of the groundbreaking cultural critics, afrofuturists, colleagues, and family who saw the OG playing the art game during the burgeoning Hiphop, Black Rock, and Digital Animation movements. Sure to be an expose for the Ages.
PHLO
PHLO is a feature length horror story blended with a poignant coming-of-age tale the chronicles the of a young child, Ezekiel, who is taken and raised by the Father figure, Esrel, and Mother figure, Lupo. The kidnappers raise Ezekiel into a highly intelligent, yet apathetic young man, who has a world of opportunity in front of him. Further, the young man, who has fallen in love with a beautiful classmate, Genesis, who challenges him to expand his options; against the desire of Lupo. Ezekiel is faced with a life altering question. Should he leave home or stay? This is a difficult task as his parents also happen to have an insatiable taste for human blood.
