Waste Land (2010)
- Extent:
- Scope and content:
-
Director: Lucy Walker
Producers: Angus Aynsley and Hank Levine
Country: United Kingdom and Brazil
Award won: Full Frame Audience Award
TRT: 95:00Artist Vik Muniz, known for painting with nontraditional materials, returned to his native Brazil to portray workers in one of the world's largest garbage dumps, Jardim Gramacho, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He collaborated with these "catadores"-self-designated scavengers of recyclable materials-to create portraits of them made entirely of garbage, returning the profits from their sale to his subjects. Over three years, the filmmakers followed Muniz and this eclectic band of catadores, revealing both the dignity and despair of their lives, in a multivalent collaborative work engaging with issues of artistic process, social justice, responsibility to one's subjects, class mobility, activism, and beauty.
In English and Portuguese with English subtitles
- Alternative form available:
-
Use Copies: DVD use copy available.
Contents
Using These Materials
- Using These Materials Links:
-
Using These Materials
- Collection restrictions:
-
Collection is open for research.
Original audiovisual materials are closed to patron use. Use copies are available in the collection.
- Use & permissions:
-
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
- Before you visit:
- Please consult our up-to-date information for visitors page, as our services and guidelines periodically change.