Welcome to Sodom – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Welcome to Agbogbloshie—the world's largest graveyard for electronic equipment. Every year, a quarter of a million tons of electro-waste from the West is illegally dumped here. Hundreds of people take apart these electronic gadgets with hammers and crowbars to recover copper and aluminum. It is a real hell on earth—the air is constantly filled with toxic black smoke from pervasive fires, wherein the wires burn. The dark film by Weigensammer and Krönes perfectly reflects the apocalyptic atmosphere of Sodom—what the locals call the dump. The sophisticated scenes are accompanied by the stories of the people working here as well as the music they create. This is the dark side of progress, which we prefer not to think about when buying a new smartphone.