The Tracing Spoil strives to be a widespread project which is why it also includes footage of the City of Berkeley Transfer Center, one of the “compost” disposal destinations. It was thrown away into a “landfill” garbage can, and found its way to one of the “landfill” destinations, Keller Canyon Landfill in Pittsburg, California. Why do this? To see if the university trash actually goes to one of the named disposal destinations outlined by the Zero Waste Plan. Sara invested in a tracking device that she “threw away” in a UC Berkeley trash can, and has been updating the Tracing Spoil website with its whereabouts. That said, the cup was truly left on the ground for a long period of time, not picked up and thrown away until our crew ended the film doing so.Īlthough the short film focuses on on-site garbage, the entirety of the Tracing Spoil project covers so much more. Secondly, sometimes the chipotle cup shown towards the end of the film got kicked out of frame by the uninterested public, so the crew would then nudge it back into frame. First, people seemed intimidated by the camera set up that was filming some of the trash cans, so the team encouraged friendly faces passing by to throw away their trash on camera. Only two moments from this film were manufactured. Unfortunately, all of the trash featured in the TracingSpoil film was not staged and was all spotted in merely one day. We caught on camera when some graduating students popped off champagne and confetti poppers for their graduation photos, and then later found discarded champagne bottles in many areas of the school. There was some lucky timing involved during the filming process as well. However, we also found a variety of trash scattered everywhere on campus. The team was able to document community members throwing away trash into designated “landfill,” “bottles and cans,” and “compost” bins on campus. The Tracing Spoil short film seeks to capture the first destinations of garbage on the campus: the trash cans and campus landscape. With climate change becoming more and more a hot topic of discussion, it makes sense, then, that a few years ago the school published a “ 2019 UC Berkeley Zero Waste Plan.” In this document, the school covers information about hauling, costs, and of particular interest to Sara, material streams and disposal destinations. With tens of thousands of people walking through the UC Berkeley campus every day, it is no surprise that the school produces tons of waste and garbage every day. Her mission? To find out the answer to one simple question about her university: Where does the trash go? She then employed the support of friend and classmate Abigail Hernandez to help her. After watching Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and exploring Richard and Judith Lang’s “Plastic Forever” blog in her “Cinema in/and the Anthropocene” class, project leader Sara Sparkles was dying to investigate her own landscapes, namely the UC Berkeley campus.
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