En las afueras de Río de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, el mayor basurero del mundo. Hombres y mujeres rebuscan para ganarse la vida. El artista Vik Muniz retrata a los trabajadores, conociendo s... Leer todoEn las afueras de Río de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, el mayor basurero del mundo. Hombres y mujeres rebuscan para ganarse la vida. El artista Vik Muniz retrata a los trabajadores, conociendo sus historias.En las afueras de Río de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho, el mayor basurero del mundo. Hombres y mujeres rebuscan para ganarse la vida. El artista Vik Muniz retrata a los trabajadores, conociendo sus historias.
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- Nominado para 1 premio Óscar
- 29 premios y 13 nominaciones en total
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- CuriosidadesThe Gramacho landfill was in fact deactivated in 2012. It is now a green area once again, wherein its native life has returned. However, many of the pickers forced into retirement were left without jobs and in poor quality of life.
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Valter: [talking about the importance of recycling] People sometimes say "But one single can?" One single can is of great importance. Because 99 is not 100, and that single one will make the difference.
- ConexionesFeatured in The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011)
The great idea of the documentary directed by Lucy Walker is to describe the process of creation in which the subjects are the Brazilian garbage pickers, called 'catadores' while the matter is the recyclable materials extracted from the huge garbage ground called 'Jardim Gramacho', which gathers most of the waste of the huge metropolis of Rio de Janeiro. However this is only the inner circle of this smart film, as the first part describes the search that triggers the project in which the artist explores the space of the big garbage dump. At first it looks like one of its work, a square on the map, getting closer men seem to be visible at the dimensions of ants, then zooming in we discover a full human landscape composed of people who may be working physically in garbage but they do it with pride and dignity and a sense of purpose of their work and its benefits for the overall good of the community. The human dimensions of the characters discovered by Muniz are best material on which relies the quality of his art and the quality of the film director Walker made about the process of creating his art.
'Waste Land' is beautifully filmed, the characters are well chosen, and one can say that garbage never looked so beautiful and full of colors and the garbage people never looked so clean and sexy as in this film. There is one more ethical question that needs to be asked about the realization of this documentary. By picking a few of the people of 'Jardim Gramacho' and making them for a few months part of the artistic creation process, Muniz, Walker and their teams took them out of the social medium they were living in and exposed them not only to art, to better work conditions, but also to the broader world living at a very different pace, social relations and living standards. Even as the money raised from the selling of the works returned to the people involved and to the social activities in the 'garbage garden' I could not ask whether the human involved will be able to get back to their previous work, or even as they use some of the cash earned for the participation in the project will they be able to overcome the short glimpse they witnessed of the world of glamor of art trade? Although Walker's documentary tried to give a rather positive answer to this question I could not avoid a slight suspicion of manipulation, or at least of a self-righteous perspective of the facts as they were presented. But maybe I am just over-concerned, or maybe Muniz and Walker are right in their approach, and the path to help the under-privileged of this world starts not with 99 or 100 of the lucky ones enrolling to help, but with the first of the 100.
- dromasca
- 10 sept 2011
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- Presupuesto
- 1.500.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 187.716 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 9806 US$
- 31 oct 2010
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 291.307 US$
- Duración1 hora 39 minutos
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- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1