Tiny: A Story About Living Small

Tiny: A Story About Living Small

By Unknown

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2014-06-03
  • Advisory Rating: NR
  • Runtime: 1h 1min
  • Director: Unknown
  • Production Company: Speak Thunder Films
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 14.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
6.4/10
6.4
From 29 Ratings
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Description

After a decade of travel, Christopher Smith approaches his 30th birthday and decides it’s time to plant some roots. He impulsively buys a 5-acre plot of land in hopes of fulfilling a lifelong dream of building a home in the mountains of Colorado. With the support of his girlfriend, Merete, he sets out to build a Tiny House from scratch despite having no construction experience.From 1970 to 2010, the average size of a new house in America has almost doubled. Yet in recent years, many are redefining their American Dream to focus on flexibility, financial freedom, and quality of life over quantity of space. These self-proclaimed “Tiny Housers” live in homes smaller than the average parking space, often built on wheels to bypass building codes and zoning laws. Tiny: A Story About Living Small takes us inside six of these homes stripped to their essentials, exploring the owners’ stories and the design innovations that make them work.Tiny is a coming-of-age story not only for a generation that is more connected, yet less tied down than ever, but also for a society that is redefining its priorities in the face of a changing financial and environmental climate.More than anything, Tin invites its viewers to dream big and imagine living small.

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Reviews

  • Beautiful

    5
    By Ohsoclose
    Beautiful scenery, great cinematography, lovely people, really nice tiny house. Just a great film about real people planning, navigating, and executing. Absolutely inspiring.

  • Amazing

    5
    By OwenLeonard
    One of the best tiny house films out there! I recommend it for everyone, even those not considering going tiny!

  • Can’t stop thinking about peat toilets.

    2
    By Myrah Zeiss
    This movie is about upwardly mobile white people discovering trailer homes for the first time. I am now certain that everything I have ever wanted is disingenuous and insufferable. Also, the BM situation remains unexplained. I still have so many questions. At least now I know they don’t matter.

  • Tiny

    4
    By AMJ33
    I thought this was an endearing documentary as people have chosen a small house for various reasons. Aside from the tiny size itself, other challenges arise 1) it has to be on wheels as it does not meet many standard regulations to be on its own foundation 2) You have to buy the land for which it sits on or in this case live in your friend’s backyard. 3) The tiny house seen here cost $26,000 and this guy did all the labor. I don’t know that everyone can or could be that ambitious to assemble it themselves. Simplifying your life is always a beautiful thing but there is a cost or challenge regardless of which direction you take (bigger or smaller). I wish I saw more small houses in this documentary and saw more of the people who lived in them. I think it would be an excellent project but how practical (aside from size) it is still remains to be seen.

  • Tiny is not necessarily sustainable

    3
    By Pauku
    While I get the tiny house movement and agree with many of the reasons held by its enthusiasts, it should be noted that tiny houses are not sustainable per se. "Living small" entails more than living in a small structure. Placing any dwelling on 10 acres in the country is still low-density development. This exacerbates urban sprawl. People have to drive to get anywhere, and thus consume fuel and generate air pollution and greenhouse gases. Yes, tiny houses parked in a friend's back yard don't contribute to sprawl. But a better path may be good ol' apartment buildings. They use land more efficiently, and are likely more efficient to build, heat and cool. Think of an apartment building as 50 to 100 tiny houses stacked upon each other, only using resources more efficiently. Urban planning has swung to embrace high-density, walkable, transit-oriented urban living as the most sustainable solution. Don't want to live this way? Nobody said being sustainable didn't involve tradeoffs.

  • Missing A Lot

    2
    By NickName39012
    I thought I would see and hear more about actually living in a tiny house. Some of the trials of smaller living. This was more a clip on his journey and less about the house. I applaud them for what they are doing but I would have like to have seen at least a day of them living in their small home. The waste pile in the video was also a little disturbing as far as how much was wasted building the house. I would say this was average at best with little value in the build or living in department.

  • Live large in a small space

    5
    By Surrealtech
    This an excellent story of living small in a corporate age. The dream of the baby boomers is over. The Generations of the the past 20 years are forced to make do as best they can. Who can afford the American Dream? Do not believe your forbearers. Save your money. Do not buy into the McMansions of excess. Live small and reap the rewards.

  • Inspiring

    5
    By Gee Balle
    Loved this. So simple and thoughtful. Would watch again.

  • Was decent, but missed opportunity

    3
    By Kyle Prohaska
    This was a decent little documentary. You could tell it wanted so badly to be better and touch deeper on the issues it was poking at but it never really got there. It needed a better emotional anchor. The pace was a little slow as well.

  • Inspiring, deliberate...loved it!

    5
    By OrgChem
    As a tiny house fan, I had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this film. Thank you for making such a documentary that resonates deep within me (and many others!). So very inspiring and wonderful.

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