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A gold mine in Borneo is dismantled, broken down and packed into crates, then resurrected in a remote area of Guinea, West Africa. Where villagers have been panning for gold for generations. The sudden advent of total mechanisation changes everything. As a blatant expression of global business impacting on local economies, this spectacle might be irresistible to any documentarian. The beauty of Robert Nugent’s approach is that he never underlines the obvious or imposes preconceptions on the smaller, personal stories he discovers. His camera frames piquant, unexpected detail with arresting composure, and his ear harkens to the voices – not to mention the music – of both the colonisers and the colonised, the expat British labourers who follow the mine company, the seduced in one country and the abandoned in another. “One of the best films I saw in 2008. A beautifully conceived and constructed French documentary by an Australian about postcolonial global plunder in Guinea, West Africa.” — Jonathan Rosenbaum,I
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