Films by Eva Katharina Bühler

Germany 2013
by Konrad Kästner

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a milion people yet remains completely empty. Ordos is not so much a place but a symbol of babylonic hype. But nothing will change - as long as people believe. "Kangbashi was built to house 2 million people and is still almost entirely vacant – a monument of the dizzying discrepancy between sense and value which the global financial crisis has provided with additional momentum, rather than leading it to collapse. From incredulous establish

Germany 2011, 52 min
by Eva Katharina Bühler

White Treasure shows that even green technologies have their social and organic costs. The film opens with a car show, presenting electric cars and hybrid vehicles- the future of transportation. They will not need oil or emit greenhouse gasses, but their new, more powerful batteries, require different raw materials, such as lithium. In the next shot, the director takes us to Bolivia, where the world's largest deposits of this element are found in a huge salt lake – the white treasure of the Sala