Waste Land
Director: Lucy Walker
Release Year: 2011
Language: Portuguese (Brazil),English
Subtitle: English
Country: Brazil, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary
The film follows artist Vik Muniz as he travels to the world's largest landfill in Jardim Gramacho, just outside Rio de Janeiro, to collaborate with a lively group of "catadores" (workers who salvage recyclable materials from the garbage) to make contemporary art using some of the materials they have "picked".