WHITE CLOUD

In a remote industrial site in Inner Mongolia, miners extract a strategic resource essential to our way of life under dramatic human and environmental conditions. This is where 80% of rare earth minerals, essential to the manufacture of digital technologies, come from. A miner working on the site shares his thoughts on his life and working conditions. White Cloud is a film developed with generative AI that offers a unique perspective on the Bayan Obo mining district. While questions of geopolitics, ecology, capitalism, conspiracy and future scenarios run through the film, the essence is the testimony of a lone miner in search of a better future. The miner's voice is AI-generated, while his thoughts are actual pieces of text messages and statements from a real miner in the Bayan Obo mining district, taken from the Douyin app (the Chinese version of Tik Tok).