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Su Yu Hsin. Particular Waters
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Film trilogy in the IBB Video Space on the water, desert and silicon behind chips and AI, from drought-hit Hsinchu, Taiwan, to Arizona's data-centre desert.
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Clouds sit low as a coal train crosses the hills of Dresden-Gittersee in the third film. Su Yu Hsin follows the chip industry from Hsinchu in Taiwan, where much of the world's high-end chip supply is made, to the Arizona desert and Saxony, and asks what it runs on: water, desert and silicon.
You sit through about 46 minutes in the IBB Video Space. In Hsinchu a woman drives a water truck through the 2021 drought. Arizona starts from the seat of a self-driving car and takes its thread from "Cloud Song" by the Tohono O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda. In Saxony, quartz goes into a roaring furnace and old open-cast mines lie under solar panels. If you followed the row over Tesla's water in Grünheide, part one is the same argument with chips instead of cars.
Entry is the museum ticket: €14 (€7 reduced, free under 18), €7 for all on the first Wednesday. Two parts also stream on the museum's site until 26 October. Closed Tuesdays.
Look for
The water truck driver in Hsinchu
A woman at the wheel of a water truck tells the story of Taiwan's 2021 drought, hauling water between the river and the chip factory.
Arizona from a self-driving car
The second film opens from inside a driverless car, watching a dry desert turn into a hub for chip plants and data centres.
The coal train in Gittersee
Look for the coal transport train crossing the hills of Dresden-Gittersee under low cloud, on land once mined for coal and uranium.
Quartz to silicon
Quartz is blasted from rock faces, melted in a roaring furnace and pulled from the molten bath as pure silicon.
Solar panels on old mines
Former open-cast mining sites in Saxony appear carpeted with solar panels, the new use of the same ground.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
About 46 min
Skip if
You want objects on walls: this is a film trilogy in one screening room.
With kids
Under-18s get in free.
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- Berlinische GalerieChristoph Rehbach / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Between the Lines: Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum BerlinCourtesy of Jewish Museum Berlin
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- The Holocaust – What Did the Germans Know?© Medienzentrum Hanau Bildarchiv
- Jewish Museum BerlinMarek Śliwecki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Topography of TerrorStiftung Topographie des Terrors / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
- Gropius BauManfred Brückels / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Deutsches TechnikmuseumSpyrosdrakopoulos / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0