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Still A Black Star

“My goal is quite simple: to transform this graveyard of dead electronics into a global movement for sustainable living that can help us save the planet from ourselves.” Mago Nagasaka

Short Synopsis/

An artist/activist dares to shock the world about the environmental impact of its over-consumption by creating a sprawling art museum in the middle of one of the most toxic places on earth, a fiery e-waste dump in Ghana, Africa.

Full Synopsis

This feature documentary from multi-Emmy Award winning Konwiser Brothers captures a remarkable chapter in the rise of an artist changing the world by starting in its most forgotten corner.
Contemporary artist Mago Nagasaka traces the flow of waste & recycling from the world’s wealthiest nations to its final graveyard, a vast scrapyard and e-waste dump in Ghana, Africa notorious for being one of the most toxic places on earth.
Embedding in the slum known locally as Agbogbloshie, Mago reverses the polarity between the third world and first through a powerful artistic expression that begins to create a new sustainable economy in Agbogbloshie and inspire people all across the world to get involved in being the solution to the global e-waste crisis.

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Credits/

Director/Producer:
Kern Konwiser

Starring:
Mago Nagasaka,
Muntaka Chasant,
Awal Mohammed

“We tend not to think about what happens to our old devices and products when we replace them with new ones, ‘Still A Black Star’ reminds us that we all share the same planet and nothing we toss out truly goes away.” Kern Konwiser

Genre/

Documentary

Duration/

83 mins

Language/

English

Release Date/

27th Nov 2023

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