Transnational Afrofuturist Cinema era
Wanuri Kahiu's Pumzi (2009) and Frances Bodomo's Afronauts (2014) are representative authors in transnational Afrofuturist cinema, showing how African film via diaspora networks and hybrid genres envisions speculative futures. Pumzi stages a post-apocalyptic Nairobi, using urban textures to critique resource politics and surveillance while reframing African futurity on its own terms. Afronauts mobilizes cross-border collaboration and diaspora financing to dramatize a Zambia-inspired space program, embodying co-productions and platform-based distribution. Together these works illustrate how infrastructure studies, circulation, and cross-border collaboration underpin aesthetic innovation and political critique in the era.