Waste land, Almega Projects presents an Almega Projects and O2 Filmes production ; directed by Lucy Walker ; co-directed by João Jardim, Karen Harley ; produced by Angus Aynsley and Hank Levine
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Label
Waste land, Almega Projects presents an Almega Projects and O2 Filmes production ; directed by Lucy Walker ; co-directed by João Jardim, Karen Harley ; produced by Angus Aynsley and Hank Levine
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Waste land
Oclc number
698382256
Responsibility statement
Almega Projects presents an Almega Projects and O2 Filmes production ; directed by Lucy Walker ; co-directed by João Jardim, Karen Harley ; produced by Angus Aynsley and Hank Levine
Runtime
99
Series statement
Arthouse films, 019
Summary
Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of himself and his fellows as environmentalists. The pickers have a union, which has built a recycling center, medical clinic, day care and skills-training centers, and community lending library of discarded books for their members. Muniz photographs a number of the pickers, reworks the photographs with garbage, and auctions several in London. Believing in the transformative power of art, Muniz donates the proceeds to the pickers who posed, in recognition of their lives, in honor of the dignity of their work
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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- Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
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- Trash art -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
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- Muniz, Vik
- Chiffonniers -- Brésil -- Rio de Janeiro
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- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Foreign films
- Group work in art
- Nonfiction films
- Films autres que de fiction
- Feature films -- United States
- Déchets + Élimination, dans l'art -- Expositions
- Deponie
- Feature films
- Recycling
- Refuse and refuse disposal in art -- Exhibitions
- Kunstproduktion
- Müllwerker
- DVD-Video
- Poor -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions
- Group work in art -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Décharges contrôlées -- Brésil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio de Janeiro
- Found objects (Art)
- Found objects (Art) -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Trash art
- Art -- 21e siècle -- Expositions
- Sanitary landfills -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Art + Travail en équipe
- Pauvres -- Brésil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Conditions sociales
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- Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
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- Trash art -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Documentaires
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- Chiffonniers -- Brésil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Documentaries and Factual Films
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Foreign films
- Group work in art
- Nonfiction films
- Films autres que de fiction
- Feature films -- United States
- Déchets + Élimination, dans l'art -- Expositions
- Deponie
- Feature films
- Recycling
- Refuse and refuse disposal in art -- Exhibitions
- Kunstproduktion
- Müllwerker
- DVD-Video
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- Group work in art -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Décharges contrôlées -- Brésil -- Rio de Janeiro
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- Found objects (Art)
- Found objects (Art) -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Trash art
- Art -- 21e siècle -- Expositions
- Sanitary landfills -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
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- Pauvres -- Brésil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Conditions sociales
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