Consumerism Movies

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl an...

A parade of popular consumer items cut to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". A great example of Pop Art in film.

A look at the modern-day problem of "affluenza," an epidemic of stress, overwork, shopping and debt caused by the pursuit of the American Dream. The h...

Produced by Harvested Records, iShoot, iEdit is a fan-created DVD documenting Roger Waters' 2010 Wall Live tour. Released on Veteran's Day (November 1...

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

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

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

A short film on throw-away culture and TV

What if you could buy happiness?

A film released by Family International featuring 7 pop songs promoting their religious philosophy.

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

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 ar...

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

On an urban island in Shanghai, Yoyo starts secretly following Lan Tian. In a parallel world, Lan Tian is quietly observing Yoyo in the distance. Trap...

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 docum...

Filmmaker Estela Renner analyzes the effects that mass media and advertising have on children, showing how the industry discovered that they are the b...

Exploring America’s consumption of computers and the hazardous waste we create in pursuit of the latest technology, Terra Blight traces the life cycle...

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 w...

Antonio, a filmmaker running out of ideas, has a vision of the city's patron, St. Nicholas, who asks him to make a film about his true story. So Anto...