Review Fix 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Coverage: The Landfill Review: Quick and Dirty

Gary Huswit and Jessica Edwards’ “The Landfill” feels like one of those old segments on “Sesame Street,” or “Mr. Rogers, ” where they show you something you always thought was boring, but by the end of it all, you learn something.

Smart, fast-paced and expertly shot, this is a short that gets to the point and doesn’t waste a second.

Landfills are what they are, right? The place where our garbage goes and stays, forever- or so we thought. The landfill Huswit and Edwards profile in New York manages to power 300-400 homes a year by turning the excess gas from the garbage it consumes and turning it into electricity. Pretty damn cool.

The quick shots of this massive “living organism,” as one of the workers calls it, brings the idea home rather quickly. After 197 in this short, one thing becomes clear, thanks to science, waste isn’t waste anymore. It’s actually a resource.

This information by itself would make for an interesting documentary short, but the people interviewed are lively and also help support the idea that landfills are commodities and not just a place where garbage goes to die.

The message is so clear and so compactly delivered that by the end of this short, you might actually think a landfill is where garbage goes to be reborn.

And you wouldn’t be that far off.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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