Daniel Kötter

with Yasmine Bisimwa, Olande Byamungu and Christian Muhigwa

Water & Coltan
(360° Film, 2021, 52‘)

“Water & Coltan” deals with the consequences of mining on landscape and communities in West Germany and Democratic Republic of Congo. While WATER sketches posthuman near-future scenarios for the former coal mining Ruhr area, COLTAN transports its audience directly to the places of the struggle of women in artisanal coltan mining camps in South Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo. Based on a shared research of the filmmaker with social worker Yasmine Bisimwa, lawyer Olande Byamungu and engineer Christian Muhighwain in the cassiterite and coltan mines of Chosho and ZolaZola, near Nzibira, South Kivu, the 360° documentary immersive experience, by referencing Homer’s tanatalus myth, combines two local sides of one and the same violent global phenomenon: the extractivist relation to natural and human resources with its long-term consequences for the environment and society.

CREDITS

DIRECTOR
Daniel Kötter
in collaboration with Yasmine Bisimwa,      
Olande Byamungu and Christian Muhigwa

SCREENWRITERS / DRAMATURGY
Daniel Kötter
Anna Ptak

PRODUCERS
Daniel Kötter
Andrea Oberfeld, ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
with Leoni Grützmacher

LOCATION MANAGER DR CONGO
Christian Chokola Muhigwa
Donatien Nakalonge
Desiré Kagere

RESEARCH
Yasmine Bisimwa
Olande Byamungu
Christian Muhigwa

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Daniel Kötter

SOUND DESIGN
Marcin Lenarczyk

SOUND RECORDINGS
Eckehard Güther, Frederic Kitoko,
Daniel Kötter

EDITING
Daniel Kötter

FESTIVALS & WORLD SALES
María Vera (Kino Rebelde)

María Vera
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