Waste Land
What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you.
Jan 24, 2010 · 1h 30m · Documentary
⭐ 7.6· 127 votes
Director Lucy Walker
Writer Lucy Walker
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An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
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