The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogblsohie

Synopsis

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.

The film was nominated for the Locarno Film Festival 2023 and other film festivals. 

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Elom 20ce is a musican and filmmaker based in Togo, West Africa. He uses art as a vessel to excavate the past, questioning the present and archiving the future. The link between the intimate, the spiritual and the political is at the heart of his work. He called himself a ”knocker of the invisible”.

Musquiqui Chihying is a filmmaker based in Taipei and Berlin. Specialising in the use of multimedia such as film and sound, he investigates the human condition and environmental system in the age of global capitalisation and engages in the inquiry of and research on issues of subjectivity in contemporary social culture in the Global South.

Gregor Kasper is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Using a variety of media such as film / video, sound and installation, often in collaborative and participatory constellations, his artistic practice focuses on the construction and mediation of history and remembrance, social contemporary analyses in the context of global capitalism, and emancipative futures, pursuing the interrelations between personal approaches and social counter/hegemonic narratives and power relations.