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Waste Land

WASTE LAND (Lucy Walker, UK/Brazil). 99 minutes. Subtitled.

Saturday (May 1), 7 pm, Isabel Bader Wednesday (May 5), 9:15 pm, Bloor. Rating: NNNN


Brazil’s prime artistic export, Vik Muniz, specializes in photos tricked out with found objects. He takes his practice to new heights when he goes to the world’s biggest landfill to engage garbage pickers in his process.

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By photographing them and inviting them to incorporate the materials they gather for recycling into the work itself, he creates astonishing pieces and changes his subjects’ sense of themselves.

Except that they all have to return to work in the landfill.

Still, a moving testimony to the power of art.

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