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    SCRAPPY IDEAS

    Apr 27, 2022 5 minutes
    BY MADELINE LINES

    WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WASTE that’s too big to fit in a trash can, or even a landfill? Scrap (2022) sheds light on the afterlives of large objects once we’ve decided to chuck them. While the subjects of her latest doc are weighty, director Stacey Tenenbaum doesn’t want Scrap to bonk viewers over the head with an environmental message. The atmospheric documentary washes over you with surprising style and beauty.

    The seed of Scrap was planted when Tenenbaum was trudging in the dirt of a Russian rocket graveyard ten years ago. She was scouting a potential location for Trashopolis (2010–11), a docuseries about how different cities dealt historically with their garbage. The Scrap director was struck by the oddly charming enormity of the sprawling mass of space waste in Moscow.

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