In Excess

May 15 at 12:15 PM
& May 16 at 4:15 PM
Michigan

Film | Documentary | NR | 1h 10m | 2025
U.S. Documentary

*Individual tickets do not guarantee access to the film. All Film & VIP Pass holders receive priority entry to all films.

Featuring a post-film discussion with Director Melissa Langer

In Excess examines labor, capital, and displacement in modern America through the lens of one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces. It’s a gritty dive into the inner workings of a city’s infrastructure that embraces different formats, weaving newly digitized archival material together with surveillance footage and contemporary vignettes of people at work, communities in flux, and waste in motion. Observational and off-beat, the film finds harmonies and dissonance in patterns of creation, consumption, and renewal.