Sasha Rainbow, Director, Sydney
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The video opens with a dedication to the workers of Agbogbloshie, a large e-waste dump located in Ghana. The scenes display workers assembling small black electronic components, likely audio jacks, on a factory production line. The workers are wearing white gloves and assembling components, possibly for quality control. This is seen on a grainy CRT monitor set against a backdrop of a sprawling, trash-strewn environment, showing a landscape filled with discarded electronics, scrap metal, and various forms of waste under an overcast sky. The overall impression is one of stark contrast between modern electronics production and its toxic waste aftermath.