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Arts & Entertainment

"Deceptive" Documentary at Cinema Arts

The film "Waste Land" will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, at Cinema Arts Centre in conjunction with the Heckscher Musuem's current exhibit.

Franklin Perrell, art historian, will speak after the 98 minute movie has screened.

The film focuses on the relationship between artist Vik Muniz and garbage pickers in the world's largest garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro. Muniz incorporates materials such as dirt, diamonds, sugar, and chocolate syrup into his photographic process. His images are drawn from the pages of photojournalism and art history.

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The movie was described at the Sundance Film Festival as an "uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit."

This is the second of three movies shown at Cinema Arts that relate to the themes of fakes, forgery and the tenuous line between truth and illusion in art and film. The films tie into the museum's Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Appropriation and Attribution exhibit, which is on display at the Heckscher Museum until March 27.

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Cost: $9 for members; $13 non-members, either Cinema Arts or Heckscher Museum.

 

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