{"id":766,"date":"2018-11-14T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/?p=766"},"modified":"2019-02-25T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:55:56","slug":"noise-that-brings-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/2018\/11\/14\/noise-that-brings-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Noise That Brings Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Konrad Pilot<\/p>\n

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Year of production:<\/strong> 2013
\nLocation:<\/strong> Cameroon
\nDuration:<\/strong> 52 min.
\nSound:<\/strong> mono
\nLanguage:<\/strong> French, Fulfulde
\nEnglish Subtitles<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the iron market in Maroua, in the Far North\u00a0region of Cameroon the local blacksmiths turn\u00a0scrap iron into objects for everyday use. Car\u00a0bodies become wheelbarrows, truck wheels are\u00a0transformed into ploughs and smaller pieces of\u00a0scrap iron end up as spoons.<\/p>\n

Noise That Brings Money is a portrait of Abakar, a\u00a0young creative blacksmith promoting his newly\u00a0invented \u201cimproved cooker\u201d and organizing\u00a0a travel to the international artisanal contest\u00a0abroad.<\/p>\n

Following Abakar at work at the iron market, at\u00a0home with his family, at the meetings in offices\u00a0and at exhibitions the film presents a persistent\u00a0struggle of an individual to fulfi ll his dream of\u00a0becoming successful entrepreneur, by bringing\u00a0seemingly unusable pieces of iron back to life.<\/p>\n

Copyright: 2013 \u00a0Visual Cultural Studies, University of Troms\u00f8<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thesis<\/h2>\n

ABSTRACT\u00a0At the blacksmith market in Maroua, in the Far North region of Cameroon, the hammers clang all day long. Here, the local blacksmiths turn scrap iron into objects of everyday use. Car bodies become wheelbarrows, truck wheels are transformed into ploughs and smaller scrap iron parts end as spoons. The practices of blacksmiths are representative of many other places in Africa where recycling became a way to earn living and where many craftsmen form a part of large untaxed informal sector. Abakar, a young creative blacksmith running his workshop at the market wants to escape the viscous circle of tapping the hammer from dusk till dawn. He wants to modernize his workshop and create the first blacksmith enterprise in Far North Cameroon. Lacking capital in form of scholarly education, the abilities to write and read with ease, knowledge of computers and connection to people in power he encounter problems each time he leaves the market and enters bureaucratic arena. This thesis is an attempt to link the life-story and the day to day struggles of Abakar to the inequalities of chances and show the globalization from the bottom of African society, as experienced by someone who does not belong to the elite but wants nonetheless to make it. The paper is accompanied by a film of 52 minutes with the title \u201cNoise That Brings Money\u201d which presents many of the scenes which are described and analysed in this thesis.<\/p>\n

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Filmmaker:\u00a0Konrad Pilot Year of production: 2013 Location: Cameroon Duration: 52 min. Sound: mono Language: French, Fulfulde English Subtitles At the iron market in Maroua, in the Far North\u00a0region of Cameroon the local blacksmiths turn\u00a0scrap...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,10,13,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-42","category-africa","category-cameroon","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/viscam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}