“Waste Land” Film Screening

WHAT: “Waste Land” is an award winning documentary by director Lucy Walker about an artist who creates murals from landfill materials. An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

WHERE: Simons Art History Room 307 (Around the corner down the hall to the right from room 309 where we usually have film screenings)

WHEN: Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 7pm