Waste Land
Tomorrow at 12:30 in RM 102 of Wargin hall (u)ntitled will be screening the documentary Waste Land. WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives.
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Last week I came across a movie by the title “Waste Land”, an astonishing true story from the largest trash dump in the world. After doing my research I found that the movie "Waste Land" is actually an award winning documentary that is described as being an uplifting feature documentary that highlights the power of art and how it can transform people’s lives as well as bring out the beauty of the human spirit. The main character or leader of the file is top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz. In that beginning of the film Vik says that his goal is to transform the garbage that is thrown away and turn it into high end contemporary art while he changes the lives of a group of people. In the film Vik takes us on an emotional journey to Jardim Gramacho (the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro) where the world's largest land field of watse stands. Vik collaborates with brilliant people who work as trash pickers of recyclable materials. These people are paid 20 to 25 dollars a day to pick recyclable materials that are in demand by the factories that ask for them. The pickers are important because what they are doing is actually increasing the capacity of those materials. The companies then take those materials and make other useful materials like car bumpers, glass, ect.
(Patricia Reynoso ART9)
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