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Clips from Waste Land (2010)

"Watch the glass."
Waste Land (2010)
"Look, it's me."
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"I did this."
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"I did this."
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"It's so beautiful."
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"Suelen. It's so vibrant."
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"- You made the pot. - I did this."
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"It's really worthwhile to work on behalf of the pickers..."
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"And we managed to transform that material into art..."
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"I've never been to a museum."
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"but people out there see us as so big, so beautiful."
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"Are you happy?"
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"I spent half my life wanting everything and having nothing."
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"I just wanted to have things."
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"I had to buy a lot of crap to get rid of that complex."
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"Bt I did not count as being as involved..."
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"It just was impossible not to."
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"like Cezanne went to paint..."
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"and look at it as a representation."
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"It's not."
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"a lot of them they were low middle class people..."
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"I was born in a low..."
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"middle class house hold in Brazil."
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"If something had happened to my parents..."
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"If you can put yourself in their own shoes..."
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"if your living life..."
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"Because in the end..."
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"Even if everything went wrong..."
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"They just weren't very lucky..."
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"Check it out."
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"It's your dad."
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"After I worked with Vik Muniz..."
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"When I saw it being made, it was very big."
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"The back doesn't matter."
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"You did a good job Vik."
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"Now you're famous in Santa Cruz."
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"I started there almost thirty years ago."
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"I like it there."
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"That's where everything started for me."
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"And his portrait was a big success at an auction in London."
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"Since I was 11."
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"- Since you were 11. At the landfill? - Yes, at the landfill."
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"We are not pickers of garbage, we are pickers of recyclable materials."
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"He is, without a doubt,"
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"one of the greatest contemporary artists alive today."
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"And he gives life to garbage."
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"When I said he's one of the greatest artists alive,"
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"I really believe that, and everyone agrees."
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"Once I was driving in Sao Paulo..."
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"I got shot by one of the guys who Thought was the guy fighting with him."
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"Luckily he was very rich..."
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"and he gave me some money."
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"and that's why I am talking to you today."
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"Because I got shot in the leg."
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"I really feel weird."
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"Now, they have these things for the carts."
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"One of my jobs was to clean up..."
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"I would spend the whole day..."
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"in the world with its own importance."
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"These are children from the Caribbean island, of St. Kitts."
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"They are sons and daughters of plantation workers."
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"I would imagine the progression from these beautiful amazing children..."
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"to a grown, that would be just as happy..."
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"because it was paradise."
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"from a childhood like that to being very sad grownups."
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"And it was sugar."
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"I realized that I could make volumes with that."
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"It was quite beautiful."
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"I shot these with a camera. People from the New York Times..."
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"wrote a review about it and later, the Museum of Modern Art..."
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"invited me to be part of the new photography show."
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"So it changed my career entirely..."
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"the work that I did with these children."
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"Right now, I am this point in my career..."
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"Because I think that it is a very exclusive..."
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"the lives of a group of people..."
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"with the dame materials that they deal with every day."
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"And not just any material."
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"When you talk about transformation..."
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"transforming material and ideas..."
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"I don't know. This is the beginning of an idea..."
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"I just have the material."
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"So did you have a chance to look at that garbage thing?"
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"Yes..."
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"On You Tube there is a video that was shot at this place called Gramacho."
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"Gramacho Gardens it's the biggest landfill in Rio."
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"They receive the trash from all the Rio area."
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"What are the dangers of working in a place like this?"
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"First of all, the place is surrounded by favelas..."
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"And I think the stability of the people themselves..."
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"they are all excluded from society."
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"Some stay there overnight..."
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"or the whole week."
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"It's gonna be hard."
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"So do you think it is too hard?"
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"And I think we are. So I think it's worth a try."
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"My experience with mixing art..."
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"is that is the main thing..."
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"is taking people away even if it is for two minutes..."
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"away from where they are."
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"And showing them another world..."
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"another place."
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"Even it's just a place from where they can look at where they are..."
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"I want this to be an experience of how art..."
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"can change people..."
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"but also... Can it change people?"
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"This is where I am going to spend the next two years of my life."
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"And your going to make drawings out of the garbage?"
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"How is it going to be the whole health issue..."
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"They don't question it, because they feed from there."
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"It's hard to make those assumptions from looking at Google Earth."
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"And you are going to create everything?"
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"I want also..."
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"the iconography to develop from my interaction with them."
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"What would they like to show?"
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"Maybe it will end up just being portraits."
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"I have no idea."
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"These are the roughest..."
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"people you can think of, all drug addicts."
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"It's like the end of the line."
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