Wasteland

CineCulture, together with Filmworks, presents: Wasteland

Film Screening

Date: January 14, 2011
Time: 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Place: Tower Theatre, 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno

Tickets: $10 general, $8 students & seniors

January 14: Wasteland (2010): Directed by Lucy Walker, this documentary from Brazil and the UK, which won an Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, follows artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Muniz photographs an eclectic band of “catadores,” or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. The artist’s initial objective was to paint the catadores by using garbage, but his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they re-create photographic images of themselves out of trash reveals both the dignity and the despair of the catadores. As the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives, the movie offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art, with a score by electronic musician Moby. In English, 90 minutes.

Screening Sponsors: Recyco inc. & Skee’s Recycling.

For more information:
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Fresno Filmworks: http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department. Registration information: MCJ 177T, Spring 2011 course # 36134.

CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.

For further information, contact Professor Mary Husain at mhusain@csufresno.edu
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu