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| Country: | USA |
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| Length: | 18 min |
Description:
"Gravesend" employs a documentary style to examine the mining of coltan, a mineral essential for cell phones, laptops, and other electronics. The film contrasts two locations: a modern, automated factory in the West where coltan is refined into microelectronic components, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where miners manually extract and process the ore. Realistic footage is interwoven with an animated depiction of the Congo River, its curves suggesting communication networks accompanied by sounds like a busy cell phone network. Meanwhile, coltan's high market value fuels the ongoing armed conflict in the DRC, a conflict that has resulted in millions of deaths over decades of civil war.
| Alternative title: | Gravesend |
| Release year: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Director: | Steve McQueen |
| Type: | Movie |
| External links: | IMDB |
