Waste land [videorecording] / presented by Almega projects ; O2 Filmes production ; directed by Lucy Walker ; co-directed by João Jardim, Karen Harley ; produced by Angus Aynsley and Hank Levine.

Wasteland

9781422915134
1422915131

[London] : Almega Projects ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2011.

English

Soundtrack in English and Portuguese, with English subtitles.

1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

767685239308

N6494.T73 W378 2011

770.92

019 Arthouse Films
NNVG239301 New Video Group

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.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.
Special features include: featurettes Waste land: beyond Gramacho (ca. 16 min.); An untold story (9 min.).
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Isis Rodrigues Garros, José Carlos da Silva Baia Lopes (Zumbi), Sebastião Carlos dos Santos (Tião), Valter dos Santos, Ledie Laurentina da Silva (Irmã), Magna de França Santos, Suelem Pereira Dias.

Director of photography, Dudu Miranda ; editor, Pedro Kos ; music, Moby ; dialogue transcriptions/translations, Olivia Wolfe, Carla Madiera, Beatriz Franco, Carlos Andre Oighenstein, Joana Galetti, Joca Vidal, Mauro Blanco, Fernanda Almeida Rocha, Cassia Talpalar, Andre W. Esteves.

DVD; NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround, 2.0 Dolby digital stereo.

Winner 2010 São Paulo International Film Festival Itamaraty Award for Best Documentary; João Jardim, Lucy Walker, Karen Harley; 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Audience Award World Cinema-Documentary; Lucy Walker; 2010 Berlin International Film Festival, Amnesty International Film Prize; Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim, and Panorama Audience Award; Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim; Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Audience Award, Best Documentary; IDA Awards, Best Documentary.

Arthouse films (Series) ; 019.

Waste land, beyond Gramacho.
Untold story.

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