Should you watch Waste Land?
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Waste Land
Documentary · 2010
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
The sides of Waste Land
- One of the world's largest landfills near Rio
- Pickers of recyclables who become portrait subjects
- The artist Vik Muniz
Waste Land is good for you if…
- you want real people from Jardim Gramacho telling their own lives.
- you like being moved by people seeing their portraits in a museum.
- you like giant portraits made from garbage.
Waste Land is bad for you if…
- you can't take hard stories of poverty and the loss of a child.
About: dignity · art · hope
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