Agbogbloshie
From Artefact AI Film Festival, on Vimeo, by the link its maker gave the festival
AI-made Made with AI, as its festival says: “The 2026 edition of the Artefact AI Film Festival — an international competition for short films made with generative AI, organised by Artefact with mk2.” AI-made films · What this means · Its maker can have it taken off.
By MARCOS ROGERIO TEIXEIRA JUNIOR, as its festival's page names them. This site's record of that page; the title and description are as the page gives them.
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About this film
The world replaced six thousand phones this morning.
All of it is burning in Agbogbloshie, in the middle of Accra, where six thousand people make a living pulling copper out of what you upgraded away from. They breathe five times the WHO safety limit. Nobody records what kills them. In 2021 the government demolished the place — the smoke only moved closer to the houses.
He lives there. And while everyone else digs for weight, he digs for the piece that still works.
Out of a washing machine motor, dead laptop batteries and spliced wire, he raises a lamp post in the middle of his own street.
That night, for the first time in twenty-two years, the street had light.
That is how they found him.
Fiction, set in a place that exists.
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