Below is the poster (via IMP Awards) of Waste Land, this year’s winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at Sundance.
Co-directed by British filmmaker Lucy Walker, it’s a documentary which follows top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz as he embarks on a massive project taking him to Rio de Janeiro’s Jardim Gramacho, a huge dump that receives more rubbish each day than any landfill in the world.
The dump is inhabited men and women who pick through the trash to recover recyclables, and Muniz ends up employing some of them to gather raw materials for a series of enormous images.
The film is playing in this month’s 54th BFI London Film Festival.
