The Burning Barrel

Overview

On the farm, no sanitation worker wearing gloves comes to make garbage disappear. Bottles and cans are collected for regular trips to the county landfill, food scraps go to the compost heap, and piles upon piles of paper are fed weekly into the burning barrel. Using home movies, family snapshots, the prairie landscape, and advertising images drawn from the last 35 years, The Burning Barrel documents the rise and fall of a small rural community and, in the process, explores the personal and social costs of consumerism.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 1, 1997

Original language

English

Director

Tim Schwab,Christina Craton

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0284931