Filmmaker Goes Natural after 'Garbage' Ventures

Special to The Star - YourHome.ca
By Ellen Moorhouse, June 13, 2009

Toronto filmmaker Andrew Nisker, along with the people in his movies, has immersed himself in trash over the past several years.

In Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home, released in 2007, he filmed the McDonald family, who stockpiled their trash for three months, with the exception of green bin refuse, which they weighed and put out for collection. The sobering result: 83 green garbage bags and 145 kilograms of organics.

Now, Nisker is in post-production on his next documentary, Chemerical, in which another family, with three teenagers, goes through their home, eliminating harmful chemical products, such as cleansers, in favour of homemade, eco-friendly concoctions.

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