NR, 66 min.
Directors: Merete Miller,
Christopher Smith
Writer: Merete Miller
Featuring: Christopher
Miller, Merete Miller, Daryl Gibson, Jay Shafer, Logan Smith, Paul Smith,
William Smith, Tammy Strobel, Dee Williams
I hate, hate, hate home
improvement shows. My wife loves them and invariably I will walk into the
living room on a Saturday afternoon and one of the cursed things will be on my
TV. However, there is one home designing phenomenon that I have to admit is a
guilty pleasure of mine—tiny houses. I will click on any Facebook link that has
anything to do with tiny houses. I love the ultra-simplification philosophy
that goes into them. I like the lower environmental footprint they promote. But
mostly, I just love to see how their designers find different ways to fit all
the basics of living and even one or two luxuries into less than 200 square
feet.
“Tiny: A Story About Living
Small” is a documentary made for a man of my guilty pleasure. Made by the
girlfriend of a man who decides at the age of thirty that his big contribution
to the world is going to be to build a tiny house himself to live a simplified
life in out on a plot of land that he’s purchased in the middle of nowhere. The
movie details the entire process of building his tiny house. He has no
experience in construction. He does a surprisingly good job building it,
considering. It also takes him about 9 months longer than he estimated. It
costs him $26,000.
The director also interviews
several other people who have adopted the life of living small. The houses are
amazing. One women lives in an 86 square foot home. I built a closet that big.
Her home is cooler than my closet. One of the men she interviews was one of the
pioneers of the tiny home movement, an innovative architect of tiny homes. He
eventually left the life of living small as his family grew. He now lives in a
600 square foot “mansion.”
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