Still A Black Star
Still A Black Star
This inspiring documentary captures the opening chapter in the rise of an artist changing the world by starting in its most forgotten corner. Follow the extraordinary journey of the fearless artist/activist Mago Nagasaka as he traces the flow of waste & recycling from the world’s wealthiest nations to its final destination, a fiery e-waste graveyard in Ghana, Africa where electronics are burned to recover precious metals while poisoning the people and devastating the land.
Embedding in the settlement, Mago partners with the people there to achieve an audacious dream — to open an art museum in the midst of this notorious slum. Together, they work to transform their community through art and forge a powerful new artistic expression out of the waste itself, sending it back ‘upstream’ to wake up the world to a global crisis of over consumption.
Embedding in the settlement, Mago partners with the people there to achieve an audacious dream — to open an art museum in the midst of this notorious slum. Together, they work to transform their community through art and forge a powerful new artistic expression out of the waste itself, sending it back ‘upstream’ to wake up the world to a global crisis of over consumption.
Genre
Documentary,
Culture Vulture,
Art & Artists,
Activism
Runtime
97
Language
Japanese,
English,
Twi
Director
Kern Konwiser
Producer
Kern Konwiser
Played at
Glendale 10.16.23 - 10.17.23
Monica Film Center 10.16.23 - 10.17.23
Claremont 5 10.16.23 - 10.17.23
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