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.


Articles on Waste Land

Isabel Stevens, In the garden of trash, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 3 (March), 2011 pp. 9

Reviews

Nicolas Rapold, Waste Land, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 3 (March), 2011 pp. 77

Manfred Riepe, Waste Land, in: epd Film, nr. 5, 2011 pp. 49

Waste Land
Brazil / United Kingdom 2010

Directed by

Cast

More..

Year: 2010
Country: Brazil
United Kingdom
Language: English
Portuguese
 
IMDb: 1268204