Role credits on another great year for documentary film.
One of my favorite films this year, Lucy Walker's Waste Land, has been collecting awards throughout 2010, including the International Documentary Association's Feature Film Award and the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. For good reason.
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is renowned for creating photographic art from found objects. For his latest project on garbage, he decides to journey from New York to his native Brazil - the site of the world's largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho. He meets a group of professional recyclable material pickers trying to make a living amid poverty and despair, and finds his inspiration.
Muniz collaborates with his photographic subjects and in the process, uplifts them. They each help build their art pieces with the materials they collect each day, while sharing their individual, often heart-breaking life stories. It is an intimate and moving film experience to behold.
Filmed over the course of three years, Waste Land offers a wondrous lesson in the power of art and a helping hand to transform the human spirit - fantastic reminders as we enter a brand new year of life and documentaries.
Make it a great one!
Friday, December 31, 2010
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