TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Walker, Lucy.
AU  - Jardim, João.
AU  - Harley, Karen.
AU  - Aynsley, Angus.
AU  - Levine, Hank,
AU  - Moby.
AU  - Muniz, Vik.
CN  - N6494.T73
CN  - N6494.T73
CY  - [London] :
CY  - New York, N.Y. :
DA  - c2011.
ID  - 455970
KW  - Trash art.
KW  - Ragpickers
KW  - Sanitary landfills
KW  - Waste disposal sites
KW  - Poor
KW  - Found objects (Art)
KW  - Group work in art.
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - Refuse and refuse disposal in art
LA  - eng
LA  - por
LA  - Soundtrack in English and Portuguese, with English subtitles.
N1  - Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.
N1  - Special features include: featurettes Waste land: beyond Gramacho (ca. 16 min.); An untold story (9 min.).
N2  - 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.
PB  - Almega Projects ;
PB  - Distributed in the U.S. by New Video,
PP  - [London] :
PP  - New York, N.Y. :
PY  - c2011.
SN  - 9781422915134
SN  - 1422915131
T1  - Waste land
TI  - Waste land
VL  - 019
ER  -