A series of encounters with one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces — unearths hidden dynamics of labor, surveillance, and displacement in modern America.
In Excess traces Philadelphia’s protracted efforts to curb illegal dumping and littering through a series of vignettes about excess, neglect, and human behavior. Presented as both a multichannel video installation and a non-fiction feature film, the project reveals the complex ecosystem of the city’s many fraught campaigns to manage its own waste.
Audio description written by Oliver Baker. Blind QC by Nefertiti Matos Olivares. Narrated by Barbara Faison. Audio edited by Thomas Reid.