Waste Land
What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.
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.
- Budget
- $1,500,000
- Revenue
- $187,716
- Production
- O2 Filmes, Almega Projects, Oscilloscope, Intelligent Media Productions, Petrobras
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Lucy Walker
- Writers
- Lucy Walker
- Cinematography
- Dudu Miranda,Heloísa Passos,Ernesto Herrmann,Aaron Phillips
- Composer
- Moby
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BornKnight
January 5, 2024
Nominated for best documentary for the Academy in 2012. I don't know if I could be wrong but some of the the reviews here are very negative from those who live in Brazil. The point of view is valid from what people say negatively about documentaries, but I also agree with another aspect - in the same way that the impact of knowing that your painting is worth so much more than you as a person in a landfill, it also shows the perspective that things can be different if you believe and fight for…