In the roiling Anthropocene, the negative image of abundance is waste. Where does it all go? An observational essay on our systems of disposal interwoven with eerily fascinating found footage views, IN EXCESS interrogates labor, infrastructure, and consumption in America. It is also a ghost story, not just of the afterlives of our things, but of a trash-laden ship lost without port.

Combining CCTV surveillance footage, subterranean sewer cams, and vignettes of the people working to keep their city clean, IN EXCESS follows the flow of trash out of Philadelphia and onto a surprising global journey, revealing the hidden ecosystems of waste management and the inevitable ways that trash resurfaces long after we’ve tossed it away.