The Burning Field

Director: Justin Weinrich
Production Country: United States
Production Year։ 2018
Duration։ 71 minutes
Produced by: Anita Afonu

Synopsis

In this immersive portrait of life in an environmental wasteland, four young Ghanaians struggle to navigate work and relationships over a single day in Agbogbloshie, the largest e-waste dump on earth. Told entirely from their unique perspectives and in their own words, verité sequences capture telling moments from lives spent dismantling and burning electronic appliances from around the world, and the steep toll that it takes both on them and on the environment.