One Man's Trash
Movies
0.5 hrs
November 12, 2015 7:30 pm Thursday
"One Man's Trash" is a new short documentary from New York based filmmaker, Kelly Adams. It follows the story of Nelson Molina, who has worked for the NYC Department of Sanitation for 34 years. Molina has a unique relationship to the objects that fill the garbage bags lining the streets. With a keen curatorial eye for finding treasure in household trash, he has created a collection of found objects in a sanitation garage in East Harlem, which he refers to as a museum of “Treasures in the Trash.” The film encourages us to rethink our relationship to the objects that we encounter every day, and to find meaning in the mundane. Entry- Free
Organizer
Kelly Adams
Kelly Adams passion rests at the intersection of media and education. She has her BA in Anthropology and Environmental Earth Science from Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on a contemporary sacred land dispute, Navajo Nation vs. U.S. Forest Service and the translation of cosmological narratives. This interest in narrative was translated to the screen when she went to work for Culture Unplugged film festival based in India. She has worked teaching youth media in Hyderabad, India and New York City and interned with POV, StoryCorps, and Downtown Community Television Center.