CANCELED // Distant Planet Project Presents: “Black Metropolis” and “Phlo”
We regret to inform you that the Friday evening screening and related events scheduled for April 11, 2025, at The Robin Theatre have been canceled.
We were eagerly looking forward to presenting the world premieres of Phlo and Black Metropolis, two original works by Afrofuturist trailblazer Jim Fielder. We’ve been working closely with Jim throughout the production process, and while tremendous creative progress has been made, the films are still in the final stages of post-production and will need more time before they are ready for public screening.
However, the celebration of Afrofuturism in film continues. All scheduled shorts originally planned for Friday will instead be shown on Saturday at 1:00 PM, alongside the Michigan premiere of Move Ya Body at 3:10PM as well as dynamic conversations with filmmakers and a casual community chat hosted by us.
We’d love to see you there—and we remain deeply excited about the work being made, the stories being told, and the worldbuilding yet to come.
– Audrey and Samuela, co-founders of the Distant Planet Project at Capital City Film Festival
You can RSVP for Saturday’s programming below!
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.
