Independent Lens
The Grocery List Show
Host Chrissy Camba, former Top Chef contender, and guests visit international grocery stores across the U.S. and cook together, illustrating how cuisine can forge cultural connections.
The Burning Barrel
The Burning Barrel explores the personal costs of consumerism in the rise and fall of a small rural community.
- Premiere Date
- February 1, 1997
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Funding Initiative
- Open Call
Producer
Christina Craton
Producer
Timothy Schwab
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The Film
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.
