# Dan Bell: Inside America's dead shopping malls

What happens when a mall falls into ruin? Filmmaker Dan Bell guides us through abandoned monoliths of merchandise, providing a surprisingly funny and lyrical commentary on consumerism, youth culture and the inspiration we can find in decay.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 11 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/DanBell_2016X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/DanBell_2016X?play=1)