Event: 'Screening Of The Film Waste Land' Print
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Date: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 At 06:30 pm
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Location: MIT, Little Theater E14-633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Filmed over nearly three years, the Academy Award-nominated film Waste Land follows MIT Visiting Artist Vik Muniz from his home base in Brooklyn 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. Director Lucy Walker and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. Learn more about the film.