Waste Land

By Daron 2022-11-08 08:40:28

VIK MUNIZ "CATADORES" reorganizes the contemporary meaning of classic cultural images

This article is more about Vik Muniz's "Catadores" series than the film itself.


   Vik Muniz was born in 1961 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and now lives in New York and Rio de Janeiro. He is now an internationally renowned photographer and a visual artist. Vik Muniz is good at creating with unexpected materials: dust, syrup, chocolate, diamonds, caviar, toys, paper punches, garbage, dry dyes and other materials as inspiration, long-term simulation of predecessors’ masterpieces to...

By Aron 2022-05-08 22:50:12

Some feelings of watching the garbage dump

I first noticed the film in the video news of the BBC Spanish Channel about half a year ago. It was reported that it won many awards. It was marked down at the time and I always wanted to watch it. I watched this film in a film class studying Latin American films. .

I have always disliked documentaries before. It’s not bad, but most of them feel dull, and I often can’t stand it. The junkyard is more like a feature film. From the very beginning, when the audience saw the artist Vik...

By Constantin 2022-05-08 19:36:07

The conversion of garbage and art

"Junkyard" focuses on the livelihood of the bottom people from the perspective of art, trying to change the life of garbage scavengers (material reuse classifiers) through artistic conversion of garbage, and at the same time let the world pay attention to our living conditions. Garbage is waste. For us who make rubbish, it is waste. After we manufacture and produce materials, enjoy and consume them, the discarded garbage becomes a burden on the planet that feeds us. Scavengers: There is a group...

By Nestor 2022-05-08 16:22:35

Environmental Guard

This is the first movie I watched in USA, LA, and UCLA.
This is a documentary film that shocked my soul.
The three-year production process tells how people working in the largest domestic waste disposal plant in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, think about their work and how they live, and how the artist Vik uses his efforts and works to let the world pay attention to them and what they do in their lives. Change.
The shock of these people is that they are very poor...

By Kristy 2022-05-08 16:03:09

Junkyard Short Comment

I remember watching the ART ATTACK on the Pearl TV when I was a child. I like the host to pile up some inconspicuous little things in life into a huge picture. And the pure humanistic care that took place in Brazil rendered the cool tone of documentaries into a bright sun. Of course, there will be images of lashing out at the government and the people at the bottom struggling to live and never staying at home, but the most touching thing is that once art invades life, everything is beautiful,...

By Anais 2023-09-19 10:44:07

The greatness of art, great art, using art to solve practical...

By Hoyt 2023-09-17 07:57:52

Actually I really don't like...

By Jade 2023-08-29 08:56:51

This kind of documentary is sweet and poisonous, and after watching it, my brain is extremely excited and not enough. If you have a dream, dare to realize it, nothing is...

By Linwood 2023-08-05 14:24:43

The lives of these people have changed...

By Mariela 2023-07-31 03:10:29

Beauty is beautiful, but it's still a little too...