Water Coltan

This film contrasts two natural resources two locations and two layers in time The common denominator is miningand the traces it leaves behind in landscapes and communities On the one hand we have the depleted coal mines of Germanys Ruhr region where the longterm consequences of mining activity are emerging On the other we have the stillactive mines in Democratic Republic of the Congo where coltanessential for the manufacture of smartphones and other devicesis being extracted from the earth