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Tramway Film Festival

THE CURRENCY – SENSING 1 AGBOGBLOSHIE

Germany, Taiwan, Togo | 2023 | 16’ | Polish premiere

A landscape of electronic equipment leftovers, embedded in biting clouds of smoke, burnt earth and dirty water. In Agbogbloshie – one of the world’s largest e-waste recycling sites in the middle of Accra – they were dismantled and burnt in order to return their metals to the industrial recycling cycles. In between, an observer who, by means of acoustic field research, investigates this place as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes and questions this from a spiritual perspective.

Director: Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying, Gregor Kasper
Script: Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying, Gregor Kasper
Cinematography: Gregor Kasper
Editing: Gregor Kasper
Sound: Sum-Sum Shen, Ilya Selikhov
Cast: Elom 20ce
Producer: Gregor Kasper
Production: xizhuang, Atakpa Productions, Asrafo Records, RLIS – Research Lab of Image and Sound

Main festivals:

  • Locarno Film Festival
  • Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
  • Vienna Shorts
  • Filmfest Dresden