America Recycled
The Hussin brothers' movie debut follows their two-year bicycle trip across the Southern United States in search of an alternative to the middle class consumer lifestyle. After admitting to being corrupted by a life of plentitude, they test their survival skills by finding their own food and sleeping under the stars. On the way they visit communities practicing alternative lifestyles, what Tim and Noah Hussin describe as squatting anarchists and desert-dwelling libertarians, ageing hippies and homesteading hipsters not to forget a gay village in the middle of Tennessee forests. Some are ultimately outcasts seeking a life without a mortgage constantly hanging over their head. Echoes reverberate of cult authors who espoused a life in nature and on the road: Thoreau, Emerson, Kerouac and Kesey, but this intimate film eschews preaching the benefits of an alternative lifestyle. The Hussin's goal is to free the American Dreamfrom supermarket shelves and remind us of America's founding values: freedom and basic cooperation among people in small self-sufficient communities.
awards
American Documentary Film Festival 2015, Palm Springs - Best American Feature Documentary
Noah Hussin, Timothy Hussin
Noah Hussin is a writer. His brother Tim is photographer who has worked for numerous newspapers and magazines throughout the United States (including "The Wall Street Journal" and "New York Times"). For "National Geographic" he photographed the Potosí silver mines labored by indigenous Bolivian tribes. He currently lives in Oakland, CA. America reCycled is their first film.
Filmography
2015 America Recycled (doc.)
Cast & Crew
