POV
Wisdom Gone Wild
A new look at dementia and caregiving, observed over 15 years. A Japanese American mother and daughter evolve their troubled relationship through the process of caregiving.
The Burning Barrel
Consumerism has a personal cost 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.
