Employing fictional, documentary, and videographic techniques, MICROCHIP AL CHIP examines the destruction of Chilean forests in order to sustain its paper exports to other nations, notably Japan.

As 10,000 hectares of forest disappear every year, intercut images of barren land, endless acres of logs waiting to be shipped from a timber depot, consumer culture, and disturbing statements from a Chilean forest manager and a Japanese economic minister build into an invective against the loss of an irreplaceable natural resource.

Part of the SOUTH series.

"An angry tirade against Japanese-led destruction of Chilean forests to make paper for fax machines."—The Times (London)