Waste Land

Name: Waste Land
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-01-24
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Vik Muniz

What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.

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Release Date

1/24/2010

Runtime

90 mins

Genres

Documentary

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,500,000

Revenue

$187,716

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A stirring portrait of human resilience and creative transformation, where garbage pickers become artists and teach us something profound about the possibility of reimagining oneself. The film finds profound beauty and agency in unexpected places, leaving you moved by the quiet power of collaboration and self-worth.