Films by Musquiqui Chihying

Germany, Taiwan, Togo 2023, 17 min
by Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying, Gregor Kasper

An experimental poetic investigation of one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites, Agbogbloshie, as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes.No dialogues with English intertitles.

2022, 21 min
by Musquiqui Chihying

The Lighting aims to revisit issues of discrimination rooted in technological development and image production. Three professional Togolese photographers explore how to use instruments to compensate for insufficient exposure while shooting dark skin tones. A leading software engineer, developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan's MediaTek, talks about how a newly-created camera algorithm is very popular on the African continent.

Germany 2018, 27 min
by Gregor Kasper, Musquiqui Chihying

The video examines the campaign to rename streets with colonial connotations in the so-called African Quarter of Berlin-Wedding. It also explores Black activist Abdel Amine Mohammed’s vision of a multidimensional politics of memory.