Waste Land
Movies & TV / DVD
UPC: 767685239308 / Publisher: Arthouse Films, March 2011
Artist Vik Muniz travels to his native Brazil to the world's largest landfill where he invites the thousands of catadores, pickers who collect recyclable materials to be sold, to add refuse to his art, photographing the work from overhead.
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Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.
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