Spoils: Extraordinary Harvest - Trailer

Trailer for the short documentary about dumpster diving.
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www.analectfilms.com/spoils
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An aging brooklyn artist, his young assistant, and blind friend arrive by rusted retro car; a Puerto Rican woman and her teenage grandson arrive on foot, lead by a rattling grocery cart; a hyperactive twenty-something and his stoned companion leave a Bushwick loft to navigate the subway. Familiar faces and converging philosophies meet to take what others deem unworthy of consumption. The reward of a free and delicious discovery activates a ritual adventure--a night of extraordinary harvest.

Every evening, long after rush hour, a series of dumpsters are rolled out onto the sidewalks in front of a large grocery store in Brooklyn, NY. A small crowd materializes to await a bounty of discarded food. As employees passively wheel out containers of expired, nearly expired, blemished, dented, smushed, or seemingly perfect edibles, the gleaners rummage through clear plastic bags and often salvage enough food to last a week or more. The foodstuffs can be found on the shelves of the supermarket just hours before. And if not for the dumpster divers, these "spoils" are destined for a landfill.

dumpster diving, yo!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Documentary+Dumpster+Diving
• divers
• dive
• Trader+Joes
• Joe's
• Brooklyn
• New+York+City

[ladypopcorn2008]

I understand that you may have intended this documentary to be a commentary on our wasteful culture and the people who dumpster, but you could have thought of the repercussions of mentioning the name of the business, and showing the brand on the labels of the food.

Please edit out that information asap, and perhaps they will stop destroying our lifeline.

[ladypopcorn2008]

Late last night, I met two older gentlemen outside of TJ`s in the city, and they told me that all the food is now being intentionally destroyed by the employees.

One of the men is fighting cancer, yet still makes the effort to collect food for himself and other cancer patients who cannot afford to buy groceries each week. They literally spend all of their money on medication and radiation therapy...

Now these people have nothing.

[ladypopcorn2008]

Because of your posting this online, Trader Joes in NY now destroys all of the food... Many people including myself, relied on this food because we are unemployed. What is fun and entertaining for you is a lifeline and means of survival for others.

[alfdude]

looking forward to seeing this!

[velo43]

consumerism creates all of that