We The Tiny House People (Documentary): Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters

TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops.

-- "This extraordinary recalibration of what it means to live the good life"- TreeHugger
-- "For those who find themselves dumbfounded, perplexed and curious regarding how individuals can make everyday-use of very tiny spaces." - The Blaze
-- "The documentary focuses on the new craze sweeping American -- people living in Tiny Houses." - Weekly World News
-- "The subject is fascinating." - Directors Live

[** Rate it yourself on imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2148460/?... ]

Kirsten Dirksen is co-founder of faircompanies.com and a Huffington Post blogger. She has worked for MTV, Oxygen, The Travel Channel and Sundance Channel. Her documentaries include "Searching for Da Vinci's Secret" and "Translating Genocide: Journey to Sudan". "We the Tiny House People" is her first documentary to premiere on youtube.

Documentary runtime: 1:21:47
Release: 2012
Director/producer/writer/shooter/editor: Kirsten Dirksen
Concept & additional shooting/writing: Nicolás Boullosa Guerrero

Features: Jay Shafer (Tumbleweed Tiny House Company), Austin Hay, Jenine Alexander (Forge Ahead Construction), Stephen Marshall (Little House on the Trailer), Suchin Pak (MTV, Hester Street Fair), Graham Hill (TreeHugger, LifeEdited), Felice Cohen, Luke Clark Tyler, Eric Schneider, Michael Chen (Normal Projects), Sarah Dickinson & family, Henri Grevellec, Matthieu de Marien (Fabre/deMarien Architects), Jérémie Buchholtz, Eva Prats (Flores Prats Architects), Christian Schallert, Pascual Alberola, Jorge Cortés (Enproyecto Arquitectura), Johnny Sanphillippo, Heather Wilcoxon

Locations: California (Sonoma County, San Francisco, Sausalito); New York City; Hawaii; France (Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Grezille, Puy-Notre-Dame, Bordeaux); Spain (Barcelona, Ibort, Vall de Laguar).

* For distributors/film festivals interested in television/theatrical release, please contact me directly at kirstendirksen [at] faircompanies [dot] com.

Music credits:
Sivia (Title track) http://sivia.bandcamp.com/
Dave Warstler (Healdsburg, NYC intro, French cave home, San Francisco) http://www.davewarstler.com/
My Life is Fireworks (Bordeaux apartment, Barcelona intro) http://www.youtube.com/user/MyLifeIsF...
Kite (Barcelona Christian apartment) http://www.youtube.com/user/pvdbass

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• Category

  Film & Animation

[mytimeistoday1]

great video, saw the tree house at the end...would've loved more news on that one.

[kirstendirksen]

It's a treehouse in Extremadura, Spain. You can find the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=uPnO8rgJIM­g

[xoundboy]

Really great film. I was totally drawn in by it after stumbling upon it by accident and sat and watched the whole thing even though I have to get up early in the morning for work. Very inspiring, not only the subject matter but also the fact that you made such a good piece of documentary tv more or less on your own (although I think you've had a lot of practice :)

[Noah Beach]

Actually they have garbage like that. It is real housewives of various cities. They are miserable gossipers full of pride and never satisfied. They are an unGodly people.



[Marshall Sfalcin]

Oh, don't worry,

the system will find a way to charge these people to live :(

[Matt G]

Awesome!

[Chad Yoder]

I'm surprised his comment got too many negative votes. He's got a point. Ted Kaczynski did live in a sort of microhome.

[Sam W]

Don't forget MTV cribs

[TihadBaker]

I like this small house business! Would owning one make me a hipster?

[ryuuseicha]

I slept on Japanese-style futons when I studied abroad. I'll take a regular bed. Squat toilets were easier to adjust to than sleeping on those things.

[uratrick]

Just waiting for you to stop being so divisive Bawhahhahaha

[Nafis Rahman]

38:00 is so cool!