Consumerism Movies

After a strange nightmare, a young factory worker's life and home become haunted by bizarre phantoms.

For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents...

A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel...

A symphonic journey into our obsessive consumption. The many objects we accumulate begin their production journey in silent secluded industrial site...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during his spare time when he worked as an editor at the...

A Eurovision singer, Iceland's strongest woman, a male model, a plumber who wants to direct movies. They all work in the shopping mall that this...

This documentary is comprised of three shorts: 'El Afinque de Marín' that follows the musicians of the group Madera. 'Yo hablo a Caracas'...

A kaleidoscopic montage, interpreting the poem "Our Punjabi Market" by Kuldip Gill depicting the vibrance of the Punjabi Market at 49th and Main in...

Lou and Noodles are consumers. Adrift and empty, they are separate from each other and from the world. Ruled by desire and uncontrollable drives to...

An essay about middle America and the destruction caused by mindless mass consumption.

Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets and our...

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...

This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine. Its comic appeal lies in the characters...

The main character, Albert, gets lost in the seductive world of pretty packages. When his frivolous fantasy turns into a nightmare he discovers a...

Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are...

A short film on throw-away culture and TV

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

African American Express is an abstract animation exploring the impact of consumerism in the Black community. Told in the style of Soviet Propaganda,...