Film Screening:

Waste Land
(Lucy Walker & Karen Harley & Joao Jardim, 2010, 99 min, Brazil, in Portuguese with English subtitles, Color, DVD)

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.

-- Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2011 Academy Awards!

-- Winner of the Amnesty International Film Prize at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival and the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival!

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, and Sustainable Duke