A journey into the interior of garbage, contemplated as a phenomenon of the human spirit, and not only as a product of human action. This essay-documentary, inspired by modern chaos theory, transits between the reality of statements and the surrealism of poetic images, seeking to integrate the conscious and unconscious life of the human mind. Apparently simple phenomena hide very complex behaviors. Maybe garbage is all that we don't want to see
Setlist:
Stupid Girl
Sex Is Not The Enemy
Why Do You Love Me?
Hammering in My Head
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
When I Grow Up
Push It
Only Happy When It Rains
Bleed Like Me
Right Between The Eyes
This documentary film presents one of the largest environmental and financial crimes of our days. More specificaly, it explores the irreversible damage done to the public interest, the environment and the citizens by the construction of private garbage processing plants.
Follows the party worker who gave up his own child, and a young woman who left her baby in the garbage. After 19 years, it can be seen that the same boy and his mother are living together in a drug dispensary.
Garbage performs in Monterey, Mexico in 2012; songs include "I Think I'm Paranoid," "Stupid Girl," "Only Happy When It Rains," and tracks from "Not Your Kind of People."
Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Academic Support Center Film Library, Keep America Beautiful, Inc., and Keep Los Angeles Beautiful, Inc., the 1963 short film A Land Betrayed examines the various ways people have spread the “cancer of ugliness” across America and offers call-to-action solutions to combat the nation-wide problem.
Over eight million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year, killing sea life. Now new evidence says it's entering our food chain with unknown health effects.
In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever they can find to eat.
Dustin Bugg constructs his entire life from litter, including his best and only friend Morris. When 'normal' society sees fit to take this away, Dustin embarks on a surreal and perilous journey to claim it back.
A cute little guy is trying to do the right thing and clean up his neighborhood. However, when he approaches a garbage can to empty it, one thoughtless person after another come by and make an even bigger mess.
Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A 'plastic soup' of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaching chemicals slowly up the food chain. In Holland, scientists found plastic in the stomachs of 95% of all fulmar birds. In Germany, plastic has been found to affect the reproductive systems of animals, while in the US, conservationists are seeing increasing numbers of dolphins die in agony, their guts blocked with rubbish. What will be the long term impact of this 'plastic pollution'? Can anything be done to clean up our oceans?
Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Erik discover her apartment, which is filthy and full to bursting with junk. It takes the brothers an entire month to clean out the place. Among the chaos, they find films going back to the 1930s, photos and other memorabilia.
Film tells the story of marginalized people in Kerala through the life of a father who working as a temporary cleaner and his Eight year old son.
Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka. It’s a hard place run by the Russian mafia. And it's where Yula lives with her mother, her friends and many other people. Life is tough in the Svalka, but it’s also a place where beauty and humanity can arise from the most unlikely conditions. It is from this place that Yula dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible. Oscar-nominated director Hanna Polak followed Yula for 14 years, bringing us along on Yula's journey to achieve this dream.
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away.
An experimental 3D animation about a broken android, an elusive junk monster, and the place where all the broken things go.
Camburnu在土耳其东北部的一个小山村。由于黑海的气候温和湿润，村民们和睦世代居住过茶叶种植和捕捞周围它们的性质。但这种田园诗般的环境是由政府决定在十年前建立直接的村子有一垃圾填埋场的威胁。尽管市长和村民的抗议，一个废物处理设施已建成，不符合的最重要的安全和建筑标准，并从那时起继续通过污染事故和灾难的环境。茶农，其种植园所在填埋之下，已经失去了他们的生计。其后果是毁灭性的和显而易见的，但吨的垃圾继续在垃圾填埋场，每天被倾倒。