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Treasure island—smugglers and illegal gold diggers. Where abundant natural resources meet poverty and exacting human labour. How much are we willing to pay for luxury? For many years, Madagascar remained unmapped and beyond the reach of the law. The island, once inhabited by pirates, is now the largest sapphire deposit in the world. However, the numerous sapphire mines were not dug by machines, but by hundreds of people with pickaxes and shovels. It is a great paradox that such a place with unique treasures is inhabited by one of the poorest nations on Earth. Instead of narration, the information is conveyed in the form of embedded factual data and motion graphics. The film was initiated by experimental architect Liam Young. (Academia Film Olomouc)
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It is as if we are looking at the daily work of gold miners and workers through the eyes of the Terminator, who makes them and their work the sum of figures and values. It is as if the people themselves are becoming commodities. Of what I saw, I was most impressed by the mechanical production of bricks.
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