The Story of Stuff is a little snippet of digital mastery from Free Range Studios that succeeds in succinctly capturing the environmental and social down sides of the consumer society that many of us are both victims and perpetrators of at the same time. It explores many of the hidden costs of the consumer chain from extraction of resources, through to production, distribution, consumption and disposal.
It is American-flavoured, but is equally applicable (perhaps even more so) to those of us who inhabit the global South and who pursue our slightly modified version of the "American dream", comfortably numb in the face of the rampant poverty and inequality that is on our very doorstep. The 20 minute video can be viewed online at www.thestoryofstuff.com, or downloaded from the same site (a 54 MB download). I have also embedded each of the 7 chapters below...
