Free Outdoor Screening | Waste Land

This screening will take place outdoors on Cox Plaza at MOCA Tucson, 265 S. Church Ave.

This summer, enjoy FREE outdoor screenings of great films celebrating art and artists, presented by The Loft Cinema and MOCA Tucson, under the stars on Cox Plaza at MOCA Tucson!  Bella’s Gelato food truck will be on site selling tasty treats, or BYO picnic food.  Screenings will take place at MOCA Tucson on the 4th Friday of the month in June, July, August and September at 8:00pm.

Filmed over nearly three years, the Oscar-nominated documentary Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores” — or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (Countdown to Zero) was granted great access to the entire process, and her film offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

(Dir. by Lucy Walker & Karen Harley, 2000, Brazil/ UK, in English/ Portuguese with English subtitles, 99 mins., Not Rated)