The Shitthropocene

Name: The Shitthropocene
Director: David Garrett Byars
Released: 2024

David Garrett Byars 2024

You might have noticed that a lot of things seem to suck right now. This film isn’t about all the things that suck—that would be a really, really long film. But it is about consumption, which is both a cause and a symptom of the suckiness. For a bunch of reasons, pretty much everyone is making and buying too much stuff, and we’re evolutionarily programmed to want it. What was once an advantage (more! = better!) is now contributing to the destruction of the planet.
The Shitthropocene is a journey from the cellular- level origins of our lack of impulse control to the ways our central nervous systems have been hacked in the name of capitalism. It’s also about how

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Running Time:

46 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Subtitles:

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish

Directors:

David Garrett Byars

Producers:

Emily Perry

Cinematographers:

Keenan Newman

Editors:

Lyman Smith

Production Companies:

Patagonia Films

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