Travelling On Trash (Adventure Documentary)
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- GOLD AWARD at the Spotlight Documentary Film Festival.
Six friends sail down the Mississippi, one of the most polluted rivers in the world, on a raft made of plastic bottles, to explore how plastic and other pollution is affecting America’s iconic river.
The raft, constructed from used bottles and other repurposed materials, travels down the second longest river in the USA for 56 days. Enthusiastic but inexperienced, the crew of young friends are battered by extreme weather changes, an infestation of bugs, boat breakages and the realities of finding shelter
every evening in time for nightfall.
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Also why so much hate for the video? Were you expecting an Oscar worthy documentary by some random kids? They probably did more than you've ever done
This was made for this channel. I think it was done well and was beautiful. We need our children to keep on doing projects like this. For all of our need to see what we are doing to the greatest river we have. Good job boys and thank you.
STUNNING footage! Applause to the cameraman and editor! This is beautiful. I wish it lasted longer.
Thank you all for caring and sharing!!
Nice documentary!! That boat is seriously impressive. I wish it was longer, but beggars can’t be choosers :)
Amazing what you can do with plastic bottles! I have a garden made out of them as well, both outdoors, and indoors! Plants doing well! Congrats on a job well done, guys!!
What Brave Smart Boys! Gives me hope for this generation ,that most of you get it ,want to help change it and will! Yes you have had the adventure of a lifetime, I'm so happy for you that you have seen and experienced our Mighty Mississippi and All it is! Now ,please go save it!AND our planet from the robber Barrons!
This wasn’t what I was expecting from the title but it was awesome none the less. Let’s hope these dudes do use this experience to inspire them to achieve some great things.
Loved it!
Hehe... didn't expect Minnesota to be so cold... bahahaha!!
Too funny. Too bad they didn't start where the Mississippi River started. and opted for Minneapolis.
What a good video...very enjoyable...What I enjoyed..they all could express themselves..very well..without every other word being a four letter word...very well done..Thank you
Loved it
Excellent adventure as well as scientifically/ environmentally relevant.
Well done gentlemen!
great documentary very good (algo bien)
Fantastic video guys.👍
Love this 😍
I think it was a terrific film and its good to know that the world is slowly waking up to the plastic crisis and a crisis it is!!!!!!!
A few years ago i was shopping at a thrift store and i took my purchases to the till and after i paid i asked for a bag and i bought a fair amount of clothes & shoes and the lady replied politely and said we don't have bags and my first thought was okay how am i goin to do this……was i gonna scoop it all up in one big bear hug or push the buggy to my car?
Needless to say it didn't matter all that matter was i figured it out and it wasn't a big deal, i wish more stores would do that and it will force people to figure it out and let me say its a bigger deal not having to use a plastic bag so i think if people were forced into having to figure it out they would soon come to the same conclusion. The baby steps the stores take now are kinda ridiculous cuz after buying the cloth ones as an option is great but if u forget them(which we all do) they still sell u plastic so its a waste of time if u ask me, enough of my preaching….lol
Nice job
This is recyclable but it could dissolve microplastics at the same time so I don't know how much good it does.
its made of the same bottles they found on the rive, so it does the same. But in this case is useful, cheap, provided samples for study and delivers a message to new audiences as a documentary.
Great 👍
Good job fella’s 👍
Very cool. And great editing!
A great video .Well done ..Please keep up the good work with your findings *
Sad, every river seems to be horribly polluted coming from Flint where the river posioned the city, well the use of river water did, this is heartbreaking. It doesn't seem to matter where or what river it is, its poulted
so many jelaous haters in the comments.
I know! I'd like to know how many of these people have made thier own boat and sailed it on a river for more than a month. smh.
OK.....I love The Big Muddy!!!.....Grew up around it and have been close to it for my whole life..my grandparents lived in Alton Illinois when i was a child, so we were always doing things at the river...now they have passed and i did live in St. Louis for a while and my oldest son goes to school near there also...but.there is one thing i would never do in that river.......SWIM....THEY PROB WOULDN'T HAVE EITHER IF THEY ONLY KNEW...some of the fish could swallow them...lol....not to mention all the other stuff that could be floating down it....it's a shame....i'm curious though, to know if they went by The Piasa Bird....
Damn those insects gave me goosebumps
The narration is beautiful, thought provoking, and has made my wheels turn in ways I didn't expect. It was more then just the crew aboard the "trash boat" you took us all with you in such an amazing way... For the love of science, technology and all living beings, thank you, thank you....THANK YOU #beproud #supporthecause #getoutngolive 🤔💡🌎⛵🔬👨🔬= 🚮🏞️💚🤗🤟🏻🤟🏾🤟🏽🤟🏿🤟
Looks like they just stuffed bottles in the boat doesn’t seem like it built of bottles
Mayflies = bait. Utilize.
Cool dude!
Is that all? I would have like to have seen how you put the raft together and some of the more difficult times on the raft in 56 days...
the thing that is similar between these men that all of them have a nice smile with perfect teeth
A very good documentary
I wish I had friends.
ahhhh Svetlana
This comes across as really pretentious, the quotes are laughably bad, and there's very little information about what it's supposed to be about. Seems like they couldn't decide if they wanted to romantically narrate their trip down the river, or if they actually wanted to make a point about pollution in the river.
Best said
3:34 "Didn't really expect Minnisota to be so cold" -not an American.
Can someone help me with the soundtrack at minute 11:30..?
"This trip wasn't about us going somewhere. It was about the river knowing where it was going and we were going with it". What.
it means that "the river", with its flora and fauna, knows"" its going to die or transform due to contamination, and we" as people, are going to have the same fate.
Mirella Castelletto I already know what it means. It's just not as deep as they think it is.
60 days, 2000 miles n all u put together was 15 min of video footage??? Laaaame....
Jennifer C Right?!? And with so many attractive accents, they should have spent more time talking to the camera!
yeah, it is not like they where alone in the river most of the time with no access to electricity to recharge the devices, or that making a video was not the main goal of the project.
New Zealand
its not in New Zealand. Its down the Mississippi river. Thats here in the states
Shirley Cooper the narrator is apparently a new zealander. He introduces him and crew and where theyre from
Love how this is a documentry about the environment and pollution, and these guys have the cheek to do the entire journey using an outboard motor. Should have got the ores out and paddled lads. Weak effort.
5:28 loch ness monster
This documentary is weak because it goes very light on any real details about the situation of the river. A documentary is supposed to educate the listener and in some cases make known to them some plight of the world they did not know about. This does not do either of these jobs well at all.
From what I gather the point of this film was about human waste influencing the natural environment. There was a small bit said in the beginning about new species appearing on the river. You could talked more about what these are and their influences on the preexisting species.You could have talked about how they got there.
The must have been more interesting things you could have said about the water samples such as quantifying the increase in plastics as you go past a large city. You could also have used your own observation on what parts of the river have noticeable trash, and even shown us on a map, maybe seeing if there are correlations between towns and trash.
There are also many quotes said which I think are meant to have a great effect upon the listener but they end up just sounding like a teenager who thinks they have come across some text with a deep meaning. These quotes might have a lot more weight and gravitas to them if the documentary was able to present its story better.
The only good thing I can say is that the camera work is good.
I hope that you at least think about these things when you start your next project. In conclusion I think your video work and presentation is great but the detail and facts are greatly lacking
15 mins ill never get back.
"Me and my friends.." He should have finished his education before writing the narration.
a dingo ate my baby
Where’s the actual information about the environmental issues this ‘documentary’ was meant to be on?! There’s no depth or substance- just pretentious bullshit. It looks like an excuse for a load of guys to piss about and the film was an after thought. I’ll never get the 15 mins it took to watch this back!
2nd
They howel like a bunch of betas!
The real story that nobody knows- the plastic and wood used to make the raft was purchased from a recycling plant. Instead of the plastic and wood being recycled, they effectively added to the pollution on the river for 56 days. Very upsetting. Also, those mosquitoes were an endangered species. They thoughtlessly swatted them all dead and killed off the species.
Lastly, the people they interviewed were all homeless people that they bullied into telling a fake story. Sad. Apparently there is a warrant out for their arrest. I hope they are brought to justice.
Gavin Paterson how do you know all of this?
the plastic does not degrade in 56 days. but it start to pollude the water in 2 to 3 years.
Right. Sure. What is the warrant for? And they didn't "add poulltion for 56 days" they used it as a boat. They didn't leave it in the river.
Can someone help me with the soundtrack at minute 11:30..?
All original music composed for the film