2010 Sundance Film Festival

Thursday February 9, 2012 3:55 PM MST

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Waste Land
Lucy Walker 2010
Categories: World Cinema Documentary Competition, Political, Environmental, World Premiere
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Run time: 98 min. | United Kingdom, Brazil | Language: Portuguese/English with English subtitles | color
WORLD CINEMA AUDIENCE AWARD: DOCUMENTARY

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz creates photographic images of people using found materials from the places where they live and work. His "Sugar Children" series portrays the images of deprived children of Caribbean plantation workers using the sugar from their surroundings. When acclaimed filmmaker Lucy Walker trains her camera on Muniz, he is cultivating a new idea for a project. He knows the material he wants to use—garbage—but who will be the subject of the new series of works?

Waste Land is a wonderfully resonant documentary that chronicles Muniz's journey to Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He collaborates with an eclectic band of catadores, or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials, and photographs these inspiring characters as they recycle their lives and society’s garbage. Walker gains fantastic access to the entire process and, in doing so, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the dignity that can be found in personal determination.
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About the film
Cast & Crew
director
Lucy Walker
 
executive producer
Almega Projects, 02 Filmes, Fernando Meirelles, Miel de Botton, Jackie de Botton
producer
Angus Aynsley, Hank Levine
cinematographer
Dudu Miranda
editor
Pedro Kos
music
Moby
codirectors
João Jardim, Karen Harley
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Rated 5.0/5 Stars
kaym
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An astonishing film and project. The pickers in the garbage dump had surprising stories and spunk and great pride in their honest work. The artist took us on a great adventure as he tried to make a difference in their lives. We got to know a part of the world most of us will never see. This was very heartwarming and upbeat.
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