Vik Muniz Film Analysis

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From watching this film, I have a broader understanding of the different ways that art can transform regular materials and people. In the film, Vik Muniz, who is a photographer, came back to his home country, to begin a project, involving the biggest landfill in the world. This project involved in the use of recycling materials from the landfill, with the help from the native pickers. This film showcase the picker undergoing a process of transformation, in which they go through a deep process of putting together the materials for the portrait of themselves, through which they are able to see the beauty in themselves that they haven’t seen and looking in a different perspective. Further into the project, Muniz begin to show the pickers a wider …show more content…

For Muniz, those lines are unclear. In the beginning of the film, his motive was to just to begin his project and persuading the pickers to help him with the project. However, with the completion of the project and how close he has become with the pickers, he would then put the portrait in the auction, that took place in London, and gives all of the money that they made to the pickers. As an artist, Muniz is a photographer, however unlike other artists who only take pictures, he chose to become close and personal with strangers for a short period of time, and goes into their livelihood, without considering how they would feel. I definitely believe that art can transform people. From the film, Muniz’s works were able to give people hopes and positive output on life. He able to used art as a way to communicate and move people emotionally. From each portrait, he also was able to portray the emotions of picker’s hardship and change the perception of the life in each portrait, making their livelihood something that they can be proud of doing. For this project, Muniz used recycle materials to make the portraits comes to life. For example, “the portrait of Irma” which is a portrait of Irma carrying a big basket on her head, with the recycle materials forming the basket, to which in reality, she used to collects recycle materials at the landfill. All

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