Summary Motion, color, light, and sound all combine to create a dynamic industrial portrait at Grand Rapids, Michigan's Padnos Iron and Metal company. The film encourages a subtle dissolving of the distinction between what we usually see as 'natural' and 'unnatural' processes. The process of sorting the scrap has a slow and patient rhythm, as if we're watching a version of how nature itself breaks things down, through decomposition, into constituent materials. We see rust, scarp, machines - all artificial and ostensibly non-green things. But these objects - and the workers - are all performing a patient and highly effective dance in the interest, after all, of recycling. So the film gives an unexpected and highly unconventional view of what it means to be 'green'. View more details
Genres : Action Documentary Short
Release date : Jan 31, 2012
Countries of origin : United States
Summary Motion, color, light, and sound all combine to create a dynamic industrial portrait at Grand Rapids, Michigan's Padnos Iron and Metal company. The film encourages a subtle dissolving of the distinction between what we usually see as 'natural' and 'unnatural' processes. The process of sorting the scrap has a slow and patient rhythm, as if we're watching a version of how nature itself breaks things down, through decomposition, into constituent materials. We see rust, scarp, machines - all artificial and ostensibly non-green things. But these objects - and the workers - are all performing a patient and highly effective dance in the interest, after all, of recycling. So the film gives an unexpected and highly unconventional view of what it means to be 'green'. View more details
Genres : Action Documentary Short
Release date : Jan 31, 2012
Countries of origin : United States
