Waste Land
What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.
2010-01-24
Brazil, United Kingdom
90 minutes.
Overview
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.
Year 2010
Director Lucy Walker
Crew Lucy Walker (Director), Hank Levine (Producer), Dudu Miranda (Director of Photography), Samy Waitzberg (Assistant Editor), José Moreau Louzeiro (Sound mixer), Lucy Walker (Screenplay)
Popularity 7
Language English, Português
