Tower calls "Buddha Belly" a consumption meditation.  This short depicts Tower's hand-crafted oil drums as animated Buddha figures wandering around a strange American landscape. Briefly the characters venture to a subconscious underworld in which primordial urges/indulgences prevail in this short, personal Odyssey.

Project begun by recording the hydraulic harvest of natural gas in Southwestern Texas--with sound and animated-oil-barrel-visuals added later.