MAKING A MUSEUM: Materializing Regimes of Value with the NYC Department of Sanitation

Trash Movie Night 2

Join us for a look at the vast quantities of garbage generated by our overconsumptive culture, the politics of disposable packaging, and how some of the world's poorest people survive by recovering reusable and recyclable goods from urban waste.

When: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 8PM
Where: Times Up!, 49 East Houston Street between
Mott and Mulberry Streets. R/W to Prince, 6 to
Bleecker, B, D, F, V to Broadway-Lafayette.

Tossed and Found (44 minutes)
A Film by Donald Blank Documentary.
Urban "Scavengers". Street People. Homeless, New York. Survival, New York City.
Recycling and the Homeless. Jorge, Tom, Joe are among many street people engaged in "street
entrepreneurship" -- living off the goods discarded by others or the odds and ends available -- the modern urban scavenger. They retrieve everything from toys to scrap metal in this itinerant trade. A fascinating study of modern urban survival and individual ingenuity. A film by Donald Blank.

60 Kilos (20 mins)
A Film by Vishal Bhargava & Bharati Chaturvedi, © 2006
60 kilos explores how policy intended to improve cities actually impacts the livelihoods of the poor in fundamental ways. It uses waste as an entry point and examines the interplay of widespread corruption, poverty, privatization of municipal services and criminalization of the informal recycling sector in Delhi , India. It was mostly shot earlier this year in one of Delhi's so called 'most dangerous neighburhoods' and challenges many given ideas about development and the poor.