Imagine a home that heats itself, that
provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine
that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles
its own waste, that it has its own power source. And
now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone,
out of the things society throws away. Thirty years
ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such
a home - then set out to build it. A visionary in
the classic American mode, Reynolds has been fighting
ever since to bring his concept to the public. He
believes that in an age of ecological instability
and impending natural disaster, his buildings can
- and will - change the way we live. Shot over three
years in the USA, India and Mexico, Garbage Warrior
is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic
story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his
crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico, and
their fight to introduce radically different ways
of living. A snapshot of contemporary geo-politics
and an inspirational tale of triumph over bureaucracy,
Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait
of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing
the world.