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The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Germany, Taiwan, Togo production year 2023 runtime 16'12 colour Color
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround

An experimental poetic investigation of one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites, Agbogbloshie, as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power politics, and technological processes.

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director Gregor Kasper, Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying Production Gregor Kasper, Patrick Atakpa Ayele-Yawou Script Gregor Kasper, Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying Editing Gregor Kasper DOP Gregor Kasper Cast Elom 20ce Original Score Elom 20ce Sound Design Sum-Sum Shen, Ilya Selikhov
Festivals
2023 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
2023 DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival, Goyang, Paju, Korea (Republic of)
2023 ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
2023 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
2024 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
2024 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2024 VIENNA SHORTS, Wien, Austria
2024 River Film Festival, Padua, Italy
2024 Film Festival della Lessinia, Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy
2024 Riga Pasaules Film Festival, Latvia
2024 Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival, Athen, Greece
2024 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024 Linz International Short Film Festival, Austria
2024 Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran
2024 Festival International du Film du Togo, Lomé
2024 ELBE Dock Festival, Ústi, Dresden, Czech Republic
2024 Tramway Film Festival, Warschau, Poland
2024 Chaktomuk Short Film Festival, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2024 CineFest - Festival de Cinema ao Ar Livre em Viana, Luanda, Angola
2024 Bangui Fait Son Cinéma, Central African Republic
2024 Cairo Video Festival, Kairo, Egypt
2025 Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Germany
2025 REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada
2025 Golden Ger Festival, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
2025 Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
2025 Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey
2025 Porto/Post/Doc, Portugal
Production
Distribution
  • Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
  • Angelika Ramlow
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • http://www.arsenal-berlin.de
Sales
  • Kaske Film
  • Thomas Kaske
  • https://www.kaskefilm.de/

Gregor Kasper

Gregor Kasper is an artist and filmmaker based in Dresden and Berlin.

Filmography
2018 Café Togo
2019 The Guestbook
2023 The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
2026 The Currency - Sensing 2 Ladipo
2026 The Currency - Sensing 3 Kailend

Portrait of Gregor Kasper

Elom 20ce

Elom 20ce is a musican and filmmaker based in Togo.

Filmography
2023 The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
2026 The Currency - Sensing 3 Kailend

Musquiqui Chihying

Musquiqui Chihying is a filmmaker based in Taipei and Berlin.

Filmography
2018 Café Togo
2019 The Guestboo
2020 The Sculpture
2021 The Lighting
2023 The Currency – Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
2026 The Currency - Sensing 3 Kailend