Carts Of Darkness

From our fellow Cascadians in North Van, this is a real and human movie about those seen as unreal or less than human. Looking into the lives of the homeless who camp in the cracks and woods of affluent North Vancouver, Murray Siple introduces us to this life. Carts of Darkness, his latest film not only humanizes Murray (who uses a wheelchair) but the homeless men he finds in his own wealthy neighborhood. With shopping carts as the mode of transportation for these homeless guys, they take it to the next level.

The next level in shopping carts? Yeah, before long you’re going to see Zoobombers using carts for bombing Burnside. These guys take shopping carts, add some extra weight and ride them down hills reaching 40 mph! This is without helmets, pads or that part of a brain that says “this is fucking crazy!

The movie takes a curious outsider approach to the personal lives of guys who go to jail, have grown children, camp in the woods and drink all day. This is movie in which the men who collect cans and bottles for a living are given a history and a sense of worth. Murray asks all the questions you think about when you see these guys around town.How did you end up here? Are you happy? Why don’t you sleep in a shelter? How did you end up riding shopping carts down huge dangerous roads in traffic? Check it out, and if you start seeing shopping carts at the Burnside skate park, you’ll know why.

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