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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:31,258 --> 00:01:33,544 He is, without a doubt, 2 00:01:33,844 --> 00:01:37,211 one of the greatest contemporary artists alive today. 3 00:01:37,639 --> 00:01:40,255 And he gives life to garbage. 4 00:01:40,601 --> 00:01:43,843 He abuses strange materials. 5 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:47,016 And he has attracted huge crowds to his exhibitions. 6 00:01:47,274 --> 00:01:49,265 Vik muniz, come on down! 7 00:02:06,710 --> 00:02:09,668 When I said he's one of the greatest artists alive, 8 00:02:09,671 --> 00:02:10,751 I'm not exaggerating. 9 00:02:10,756 --> 00:02:15,295 I really believe that, and everyone agrees. 10 00:02:15,510 --> 00:02:17,375 There is just no doubt about it. 11 00:02:17,512 --> 00:02:25,385 Can you tell us how you came to use materials from the garbage? 12 00:03:18,365 --> 00:03:20,196 Once I was driving in Sao Paulo... 13 00:03:20,367 --> 00:03:21,573 I see a fight. 14 00:03:22,119 --> 00:03:25,202 I stop to break the fight apart. 15 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:27,116 When I am going back to my car... 16 00:03:27,165 --> 00:03:30,532 I got shot by one of the guys who thought was the guy fighting with him. 17 00:03:31,837 --> 00:03:33,452 Sorry I have to do this. 18 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:37,588 Luckily he was very rich... 19 00:03:37,592 --> 00:03:39,128 And he gave me some money. 20 00:03:39,136 --> 00:03:41,218 And that's why I bought the ticket... 21 00:03:41,304 --> 00:03:43,386 To come to America in 1983... 22 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:45,221 And that's why I am talking to you today. 23 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:47,132 Because I got shot in the leg. 24 00:03:48,478 --> 00:03:51,390 Oh my god, this is so amazing! 25 00:03:51,481 --> 00:03:52,766 I really feel weird. 26 00:03:54,151 --> 00:03:55,607 This is very very strange. 27 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:57,566 I used to push these carts here. 28 00:03:58,071 --> 00:04:00,232 Now, they have these things for the carts. 29 00:04:00,323 --> 00:04:03,611 In my time, they had no thing which can return your cart. 30 00:04:03,618 --> 00:04:05,574 One of my jobs was to clean up... 31 00:04:06,496 --> 00:04:08,578 After the dumpster. 32 00:04:08,623 --> 00:04:11,615 From the meat dumpsters. 33 00:04:11,793 --> 00:04:13,784 I would spend the whole day... 34 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:17,587 Shoveling the worst possible matter... 35 00:04:17,591 --> 00:04:20,253 Organic matter left by the truck. 36 00:04:34,483 --> 00:04:35,643 Vik muniz incorporates everyday... 37 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:37,641 Objects into his photographic process... 38 00:04:40,197 --> 00:04:41,607 And often deceiving images. 39 00:04:41,615 --> 00:04:43,480 Often working in series... 40 00:04:43,492 --> 00:04:45,448 The New York-based artist makes pictures from unlikely materials... 41 00:04:45,452 --> 00:04:47,534 Like dirt, diamonds, sugar, wire, string, chocolate, peanut... 42 00:04:47,537 --> 00:04:48,537 And pigment. 43 00:05:19,069 --> 00:05:21,276 Sugar children was probably the most important work... 44 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:22,109 Of my career. 45 00:05:22,113 --> 00:05:25,105 I think this is the first time that I addressed... 46 00:05:25,575 --> 00:05:27,987 The fact of material as something that exists... 47 00:05:27,994 --> 00:05:29,825 In the world with its own importance. 48 00:05:30,539 --> 00:05:33,656 These are children from the Caribbean island, of St. Kitts. 49 00:05:33,834 --> 00:05:36,541 They are sons and daughters of plantation workers. 50 00:05:37,170 --> 00:05:41,664 I would imagine the progression from these beautiful amazing children... 51 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:44,587 To a grown, that would be just as happy... 52 00:05:44,594 --> 00:05:46,505 Because it was paradise. 53 00:05:46,555 --> 00:05:52,141 But their parents were very sad, tired, weary people... 54 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:55,393 Who worked 16 hour shifts in the sugar fields. 55 00:05:56,314 --> 00:06:02,526 I kept thinking about what was missing in the transition... 56 00:06:02,529 --> 00:06:04,736 From a childhood like that to being very sad grownups. 57 00:06:05,115 --> 00:06:06,150 And it was sugar. 58 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:08,573 The sweetness was taken from those children. 59 00:06:08,577 --> 00:06:13,162 When I came back to New York I started drawing their faces with sugar... 60 00:06:13,164 --> 00:06:15,325 I realized that I could make volumes with that. 61 00:06:15,333 --> 00:06:17,324 It was quite beautiful. 62 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:22,713 I shot these with a camera. People from the New York times... 63 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:25,194 Wrote a review about it and later, the museum of modern art... 64 00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:27,178 Invited me to be part of the new photography show. 65 00:06:27,304 --> 00:06:29,044 So it changed my career entirely... 66 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:31,137 The work that I did with these children. 67 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,397 Right now, I am this point in my career... 68 00:06:45,405 --> 00:06:47,612 That I am trying to step a little bit away... 69 00:06:48,617 --> 00:06:51,199 From the realm of fine art. 70 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:54,740 Because I think that it is a very exclusive... 71 00:06:54,748 --> 00:06:58,081 Very restrictive place to be. 72 00:07:09,512 --> 00:07:14,222 What I really want to do is to be able to change... 73 00:07:14,225 --> 00:07:15,545 The lives of a group of people... 74 00:07:17,103 --> 00:07:19,765 With the dame materials that they deal with every day. 75 00:07:22,609 --> 00:07:24,224 And not just any material. 76 00:07:24,235 --> 00:07:25,771 The idea I have for my next series... 77 00:07:25,779 --> 00:07:27,269 Is to work with garbage. 78 00:07:27,656 --> 00:07:29,647 When you talk about transformation... 79 00:07:30,116 --> 00:07:32,232 This being the stuff of art... 80 00:07:32,410 --> 00:07:35,197 Transforming material and ideas... 81 00:07:36,247 --> 00:07:38,408 I don't know. This is the beginning of an idea... 82 00:07:38,416 --> 00:07:39,701 I just have the material. 83 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:44,457 And I have to go after an image. 84 00:07:44,673 --> 00:07:45,673 Hey fabio. 85 00:07:48,218 --> 00:07:50,425 So did you have a chance to look at that garbage thing? 86 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:52,551 Yes... 87 00:07:53,139 --> 00:07:55,130 Check the link I just sent you. 88 00:07:55,141 --> 00:08:00,386 On YouTube there is a video that was shot at this place called gramacho. 89 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,472 Gramacho gardens it's the biggest landfill in rio. 90 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:06,816 They receive the trash from all the rio area. 91 00:08:06,987 --> 00:08:09,729 What are the dangers of working in a place like this? 92 00:08:10,699 --> 00:08:14,032 First of all, the place is surrounded by favelas... 93 00:08:14,035 --> 00:08:15,491 Owned by the drug traffic. 94 00:08:15,578 --> 00:08:19,162 And I think the stability of the people themselves... 95 00:08:19,249 --> 00:08:21,331 They are all excluded from society. 96 00:08:21,459 --> 00:08:23,415 Some stay there overnight... 97 00:08:23,461 --> 00:08:24,496 Or the whole week. 98 00:08:24,671 --> 00:08:25,706 It's gonna be hard. 99 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:30,458 So do you think it is too hard? 100 00:08:33,722 --> 00:08:40,594 No, because it would be much harder fo think we are not able... 101 00:08:40,603 --> 00:08:42,309 To change the life of these people. 102 00:08:42,313 --> 00:08:45,100 And I think we are. So I think it's worth a try. 103 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:50,231 My experience with mixing art... 104 00:08:51,614 --> 00:08:52,820 With social projects... 105 00:08:52,824 --> 00:08:56,737 Is that is the main thing... 106 00:08:56,745 --> 00:08:58,531 Is taking people away even if it is for two minutes... 107 00:08:58,538 --> 00:08:59,994 Away from where they are. 108 00:09:00,415 --> 00:09:02,451 And showing them another world... 109 00:09:02,459 --> 00:09:03,619 Another place. 110 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:07,543 Even it's just a place from where they can look at where they are... 111 00:09:08,089 --> 00:09:10,330 You know it just changes everything. 112 00:09:10,341 --> 00:09:14,084 I want this to be an experience of how art... 113 00:09:14,095 --> 00:09:15,756 Can change people... 114 00:09:15,764 --> 00:09:18,756 But also... Can it change people? 115 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,551 Can this be done? 116 00:09:23,146 --> 00:09:25,137 And what would be the effects of this? 117 00:09:37,494 --> 00:09:42,579 This is where I am going to spend the next two years of my life. 118 00:09:48,129 --> 00:09:50,495 And your going to make drawings out of the garbage? 119 00:09:51,174 --> 00:09:53,586 And your going to employ the people that live there? 120 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:54,593 And work there? 121 00:09:56,471 --> 00:09:59,053 How is it going to be the whole health issue... 122 00:09:59,057 --> 00:10:00,388 If you work with them? 123 00:10:01,601 --> 00:10:04,183 It is not exactly safe to do what they do. 124 00:10:04,270 --> 00:10:06,682 They don't question it, because they feed from there. 125 00:10:06,689 --> 00:10:07,724 Yeah, but we do. 126 00:10:07,816 --> 00:10:11,604 It's hard to make those assumptions from looking at Google earth. 127 00:10:11,611 --> 00:10:14,603 We have to go there and see what they really need. 128 00:10:14,697 --> 00:10:17,063 And you are going to create everything? 129 00:10:17,158 --> 00:10:18,398 I want also... 130 00:10:18,409 --> 00:10:21,196 The iconography to develop from my interaction with them. 131 00:10:21,287 --> 00:10:22,697 See what is important to them. 132 00:10:23,706 --> 00:10:26,038 What would they like to make an image big? 133 00:10:26,042 --> 00:10:27,282 What would they like to show? 134 00:10:27,418 --> 00:10:30,285 Maybe it will end up just being portraits. 135 00:10:30,296 --> 00:10:35,165 But do you think people they are open to work like this? 136 00:10:35,218 --> 00:10:36,708 I have no idea. 137 00:10:37,554 --> 00:10:39,090 It's difficult. 138 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:44,095 These are the roughest people you can think of, all drug addicts. 139 00:10:44,602 --> 00:10:45,704 It's like the end of the line. 140 00:10:45,728 --> 00:10:48,765 Check out the geography of this thing. 141 00:10:49,065 --> 00:10:51,556 This is the end of the line... 142 00:10:51,568 --> 00:10:55,356 This is where everything that is not good goes. 143 00:10:56,072 --> 00:10:57,653 Including the people. 144 00:11:01,077 --> 00:11:03,077 We are working with the type of individuals that... 145 00:11:03,204 --> 00:11:06,742 Are in Brazilian society, not different than garbage itself. 146 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:14,209 The most poisonous thing in Brazilian culture and society, is classicism. 147 00:11:14,465 --> 00:11:19,255 It's horrible how people really believe... 148 00:11:19,262 --> 00:11:21,218 And I am talking about educated people... 149 00:11:21,264 --> 00:11:23,801 They really believe they are better than other people. 150 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:22,529 You see? 151 00:12:22,533 --> 00:12:25,616 It's all recycling industry around here. 152 00:12:26,663 --> 00:12:28,449 People all dealing with garbage. 153 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:36,328 Every single lot is filled with garbage. 154 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:39,543 And you see people are carrying garbage? 155 00:12:39,550 --> 00:12:41,290 It's like a garbage land. 156 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:45,090 People look at us in a funny way, "what the hell are we doing here?" 157 00:12:47,183 --> 00:12:48,764 I see the hill. 158 00:12:52,313 --> 00:12:53,313 Oh shit. Oh my god. 159 00:12:53,564 --> 00:12:55,179 It's like a mountain. 160 00:13:04,701 --> 00:13:06,987 Where are we exactly? 161 00:13:07,787 --> 00:13:09,368 Right here. 162 00:13:11,666 --> 00:13:15,579 Hi lucio, I'm vik. 163 00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:16,492 Pleasure to meet you. 164 00:13:16,587 --> 00:13:19,454 Hi, how are you doing? 165 00:13:26,264 --> 00:13:28,721 What's really impressive... 166 00:13:28,725 --> 00:13:30,465 Is that it's the largest landfill in the world. 167 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:37,018 Yes, it's the largest landfill in terms of the volume of trash received daily. 168 00:13:38,693 --> 00:13:40,809 The ground underneath here is all soft. 169 00:13:41,612 --> 00:13:44,103 The landfill is like a plate of jell-o. 170 00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:47,274 If you keep adding to it without careful balancing... 171 00:13:47,285 --> 00:13:51,369 It will sink here or collapse there. 172 00:14:09,557 --> 00:14:11,357 You can see what they're recycling over there. 173 00:14:11,434 --> 00:14:12,389 And it's separate there. 174 00:14:12,393 --> 00:14:17,308 Cardboard, paper, plastics, glass, metal - they collect everything. 175 00:14:17,982 --> 00:14:20,439 It works like a stock exchange. 176 00:14:20,651 --> 00:14:27,318 They collect whatever the market demands at any given time. 177 00:14:27,408 --> 00:14:29,399 So the recycling wholesalers tell the pickers what they need... 178 00:14:29,410 --> 00:14:31,275 And then that's what they collect. 179 00:14:31,287 --> 00:14:32,287 Yes, that's right. 180 00:14:34,082 --> 00:14:36,539 They sell the materials right here at the landfill. 181 00:14:36,667 --> 00:14:39,579 And then it goes to the recycling wholesalers, the intermediaries. 182 00:14:39,670 --> 00:14:42,582 There they process it, removing the bottle caps and so on. 183 00:14:42,673 --> 00:14:46,211 From there it goes to another company for shredding. 184 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:48,551 The shredded material gets sold again... 185 00:14:48,554 --> 00:14:52,092 To companies who mold it into car bumpers, buckets, et cetera. 186 00:14:54,310 --> 00:14:56,767 The pickers take out 200 tons of materials per day from the landfill. 187 00:14:56,771 --> 00:14:58,307 - Every day. - Every day. 188 00:14:58,689 --> 00:15:01,476 That's equivalent to the garbage produced by a city of 400,000 people. 189 00:15:02,026 --> 00:15:04,108 - Amazing! - Yeah. 190 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,799 So that's why the pickers are really important to the landfill... 191 00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:10,441 Because they help increase its capacity. 192 00:15:10,827 --> 00:15:12,567 Does all of rio's trash end up here? 193 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:15,362 70% of rio's trash ends up here... 194 00:15:15,623 --> 00:15:18,205 And 100% of the closest suburbs. 195 00:15:19,210 --> 00:15:22,702 So the garbage from the millionaire's mansion mixes... 196 00:15:22,713 --> 00:15:28,208 With the garbage from the poorest favela? 197 00:15:28,261 --> 00:15:29,261 For sure. 198 00:15:35,476 --> 00:15:37,137 Dude! It's a city of garbage! 199 00:15:43,151 --> 00:15:45,733 It's funny how you get used to the smell. 200 00:15:45,736 --> 00:15:47,397 Yeah, I feel right at home! 201 00:16:03,379 --> 00:16:04,744 Did you hear that one? =no. 202 00:16:05,298 --> 00:16:07,755 That guy said, "they're filming for animal planet!" 203 00:16:11,554 --> 00:16:13,636 It's not as bad as I thought. 204 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:18,425 Here we are in the largest sanitary facility... 205 00:16:18,436 --> 00:16:20,392 In the world. 206 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:23,308 And the people are talking. 207 00:16:23,566 --> 00:16:26,774 And I don't see people depressed or anything. 208 00:16:26,777 --> 00:16:29,268 They seem very proud of what they are doing. 209 00:16:29,447 --> 00:16:31,187 We better get out of here. 210 00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:45,577 What you see up there... 211 00:16:46,088 --> 00:16:50,422 It looks very chaotic, but it's very organized by material... 212 00:16:50,551 --> 00:16:54,669 And by the company that picks it up and takes it to the recycling. 213 00:17:06,442 --> 00:17:07,442 He's the radio. 214 00:17:09,612 --> 00:17:11,068 Enjoying the game? 215 00:17:15,243 --> 00:17:18,610 The pickers who sort through the garbage. 216 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:22,121 I learned here is that they have... 217 00:17:22,124 --> 00:17:25,207 There own choices of solid garbage of recyclable garbage. 218 00:17:25,628 --> 00:17:29,086 Women for instance they prefer recyclable plastic... 219 00:17:29,090 --> 00:17:30,455 And soft drink bottles... 220 00:17:30,466 --> 00:17:33,048 And disposable plastic because it's lighter. 221 00:17:34,762 --> 00:17:36,468 This is where the trucks stop? 222 00:17:36,472 --> 00:17:39,214 Yeah the trucks give us a ride up here. 223 00:17:39,225 --> 00:17:41,216 And you each take your own barrels with you? 224 00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:44,845 Yeah, we have to buy them. They cost us$30. 225 00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:47,232 What's your name? 226 00:17:47,483 --> 00:17:49,348 Isis rodrigues garros. 227 00:17:49,652 --> 00:17:53,065 - Isis Rodrigo...? - Rodrigues. 228 00:17:54,532 --> 00:17:56,238 Let me get a portrait of you two. 229 00:17:57,118 --> 00:17:58,118 Do it again. 230 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,080 Thank you. 231 00:18:04,041 --> 00:18:05,747 - Bye, thank you. - Bye, Isis. 232 00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:07,082 How about with my hair down? 233 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:13,418 Film her! 234 00:18:13,634 --> 00:18:15,124 Film her! 235 00:18:15,261 --> 00:18:16,671 What a show-off! 236 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:20,629 - Bye, thanks everyone! - Bye Isis. 237 00:18:34,155 --> 00:18:36,066 Let me introduce you to zumbi. 238 00:18:36,073 --> 00:18:37,153 His nickname is zumbi. 239 00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:44,117 He's on the board of the association of pickers of jardim gramacho, acamig. 240 00:18:44,206 --> 00:18:47,073 We have to think about the future... 241 00:18:47,293 --> 00:18:50,785 Because I don't want my son to be a picker. 242 00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:54,205 Although if he is, I'd be very proud... 243 00:18:54,300 --> 00:19:00,091 But I'd rather he be a lawyer, to represent the pickers, you know? 244 00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:04,306 Or a doctor to care for the pickers in the association. 245 00:19:27,708 --> 00:19:32,372 We're here representing the 3,000 pickers of jardim gramacho. 246 00:19:32,588 --> 00:19:35,580 There is still no recycling collection in the city. 247 00:19:35,758 --> 00:19:41,594 You haven't even built anything and you want to sell off the land. 248 00:19:41,764 --> 00:19:48,385 The federal government gave us that land to build a recycling center. 249 00:19:48,604 --> 00:19:49,764 Thanks to the pickers... 250 00:19:49,772 --> 00:19:52,605 We built a recycling center without a single cent from the city. 251 00:19:52,608 --> 00:19:54,519 And now you are pretending that we don't exist! 252 00:20:01,409 --> 00:20:04,617 We're going to start a hunger strike here in front of the mayor's office. 253 00:20:04,620 --> 00:20:07,236 Hunger strike!? Yeah, right! 254 00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:18,381 I don't know about you guys, but I'm having lunch at noon! 255 00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:19,384 Is it here? 256 00:20:22,763 --> 00:20:23,502 Excuse me. 257 00:20:23,514 --> 00:20:25,630 Excuse me, sebastiao? 258 00:20:26,267 --> 00:20:29,759 - I'm vik, a pleasure to meet you. - A pleasure, I'm tiao. 259 00:20:30,187 --> 00:20:32,803 - This is fabio. - Hi fabio, how are you? 260 00:20:34,066 --> 00:20:39,060 I'm the Brazilian artist who is the most - I hate to say this... 261 00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:43,656 But who sells and is the most popular overseas. 262 00:20:45,411 --> 00:20:46,400 Congratulations man! 263 00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:48,277 I grew up very poor, 264 00:20:48,289 --> 00:20:54,580 but now I've reached a point where I want to give back. 265 00:20:55,337 --> 00:20:58,249 I want to make portraits of the pickers and then sell them. 266 00:20:58,257 --> 00:21:02,091 All the money from the sale of the portraits will be given back to you. 267 00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:07,088 You'll be able to do some things to make life easier for the community. 268 00:21:07,433 --> 00:21:11,426 When we started this association, everyone laughed at us. 269 00:21:11,729 --> 00:21:15,096 "You're crazy, that's not going anywhere!" 270 00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:19,066 "Association for what? You're never going to achieve anything." 271 00:21:19,236 --> 00:21:22,478 Everybody criticized us. Even the pickers, they were the worst. 272 00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:28,193 They said it wouldn't lead anywhere, that it would never work. 273 00:21:28,329 --> 00:21:30,240 I believed in it. I said no. 274 00:21:30,247 --> 00:21:36,243 Now I believe when you put your mind to something, you can achieve it. 275 00:21:36,587 --> 00:21:38,452 Take you, for example. 276 00:21:38,464 --> 00:21:43,254 How many people told you to give up, that it was never going to happen? 277 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:47,378 Yeah, starting with my father, my own father. 278 00:21:47,473 --> 00:21:50,306 He'd say "that's bullshit.” 279 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:51,495 "It's not going to get you anywhere." 280 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:56,013 When we demonstrated they'd say "that's not going to get you anywhere." 281 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:58,309 Well we have paved roads and a sewage system now. 282 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:03,235 If you went outside right now you'd see children in the street, picking garbage. 283 00:22:03,614 --> 00:22:07,106 We need to change that. 284 00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:09,366 I was lucky because I had my grandmother, 285 00:22:09,370 --> 00:22:11,031 and she taught me to read at a very young age. 286 00:22:11,038 --> 00:22:13,404 Yeah, reading is so important. 287 00:22:13,624 --> 00:22:17,333 Some people are crazy and throw away their books. It's absurd. 288 00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:19,748 One time zumbi brought me a book and he almost cried. 289 00:22:20,381 --> 00:22:22,417 He said "man, this book is still being sold. 290 00:22:22,424 --> 00:22:25,040 I saw it yesterday and it's expensive!" 291 00:22:25,052 --> 00:22:27,280 It looks like someone barely read it and just threw it away. 292 00:22:27,304 --> 00:22:28,635 Wow that's great! 293 00:22:28,764 --> 00:22:31,346 Yeah it's great that zumbi picks them out of the trash and brings them here! 294 00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:37,016 The other pickers just tear up books and recycle them. 295 00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:43,359 But zumbi picks out the good books, and brings them here for us to read. 296 00:22:51,287 --> 00:22:53,573 I collect 'arquivo' meaning books, folders. 297 00:22:53,581 --> 00:22:55,071 Paper. 298 00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:56,530 We have thousands of books... 299 00:22:56,542 --> 00:22:58,658 Because they're dumped in the landfill all the time. 300 00:23:02,047 --> 00:23:07,087 I have a plan to make a community library in my space. 301 00:23:07,678 --> 00:23:13,719 Up until now, I've been responsible for bringing books to the association. 302 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:19,304 I've read a few books - the Da Vinci code, the art of war. 303 00:23:19,481 --> 00:23:22,439 And I give a lot of books to tiao. 304 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:26,735 Shit! Man! 305 00:24:26,757 --> 00:24:29,043 It's good to fly over... 306 00:24:29,510 --> 00:24:31,046 So we cah see what we are up against. 307 00:24:32,763 --> 00:24:35,175 And it's like this all over. 308 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:38,469 This is by far the worst I have seen. 309 00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:40,635 It looks like they were completely left. 310 00:24:41,647 --> 00:24:43,558 And the day after we left there... 311 00:24:43,774 --> 00:24:45,639 In the afternoon they found a body there. 312 00:24:45,693 --> 00:24:47,775 They can just stick a body there... 313 00:24:48,070 --> 00:24:51,483 And it's going to be under the garbage in 12 hours. 314 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:56,659 And you become a source of methane gas. 315 00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:01,785 I already see just as a beginning. 316 00:25:01,792 --> 00:25:05,410 I see 3 characters: Tiao, zumbi, Isis. 317 00:25:05,671 --> 00:25:06,786 I think we can start... 318 00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:09,663 With the people we have already made some contact with. 319 00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:12,545 I think it is the first time I saw... 320 00:25:13,053 --> 00:25:14,793 Something that you are doing... 321 00:25:15,472 --> 00:25:18,680 Where it looks better when you are close. 322 00:25:18,684 --> 00:25:20,470 From above... 323 00:25:21,687 --> 00:25:23,678 You don't have any of the human factor. 324 00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:27,564 Which so far is the best part of what we encountered there? 325 00:25:27,568 --> 00:25:28,227 Yes. 326 00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:30,521 The human factor there is beautiful really. 327 00:25:30,571 --> 00:25:35,361 From afar there is not the smiles, the people joking. 328 00:25:35,451 --> 00:25:35,689 There was none of that. 329 00:25:35,701 --> 00:25:37,566 They were just like little ants... 330 00:25:38,579 --> 00:25:40,535 Doing what they do every day. 331 00:26:14,156 --> 00:26:15,156 What? 332 00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:16,647 Hein? 333 00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:18,278 Hold it here for me, please. 334 00:26:31,757 --> 00:26:34,169 Howdy folks! 335 00:26:36,553 --> 00:26:38,760 There's still the card problem. 336 00:26:39,431 --> 00:26:41,046 The fight is long comrade... 337 00:26:41,058 --> 00:26:43,424 - But victory is certain! - Of course. 338 00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:49,137 It's not bad to be poor. 339 00:26:49,775 --> 00:26:56,692 It's bad to be rich at the height of fame with your morals a dirty shame. 340 00:26:56,782 --> 00:26:58,272 Yeah, yeah. 341 00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:01,032 That's bad! 342 00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:07,038 Danger. Risk of life. 343 00:27:07,334 --> 00:27:09,040 - This is valter dos Santos. - Good morning! 344 00:27:09,044 --> 00:27:11,660 - Hi! I'm vik, vik muniz. - I'm valter dos Santos. 345 00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:16,548 What is this and why are you doing it? 346 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:21,049 We are making portraits of the picker. 347 00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:22,637 Because the picker is a person... 348 00:27:23,225 --> 00:27:26,638 Like this garbage, that nobody knows about. 349 00:27:26,687 --> 00:27:30,225 Very well, so from what I understand, 350 00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:34,066 I think this is very good for us... 351 00:27:34,361 --> 00:27:40,482 Because it will raise awareness about us pickers. 352 00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:43,484 - Isn't that about right? - Exactly. 353 00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:46,657 I hope you understand me because I don't have... 354 00:27:46,707 --> 00:27:48,663 Either a primary or a secondary education. 355 00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:55,087 You didn't ask me, but I'm going to introduce myself. 356 00:27:55,132 --> 00:27:58,090 I like introducing myself with my own voice. 357 00:27:58,635 --> 00:28:01,468 I have been a picker here for 26 years. 358 00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:05,222 I am proud to be a picker. 359 00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:09,472 I'm the vice president of acamig... 360 00:28:10,105 --> 00:28:14,269 The association of pickers of jardim gramacho. 361 00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:22,114 I represent 2,500 pickers who work here at the landfill. 362 00:28:23,994 --> 00:28:25,700 I carry this with pride. 363 00:28:29,666 --> 00:28:34,285 Let's say each household generates one kilo of garbage. 364 00:28:35,172 --> 00:28:42,010 And one kilo of garbage generates 500 grams of recyclable material. 365 00:28:42,304 --> 00:28:47,139 So a thousand homes generate 500 kilos... 366 00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:49,015 Of material that could be recycled. 367 00:28:49,144 --> 00:28:53,763 That's 500 kilos less of material that would pollute the rivers, the lagoons... 368 00:28:54,024 --> 00:28:58,563 That won't clog the sewers or be buried here in the landfill... 369 00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:06,404 Doing such great harm to nature and the environment. 370 00:29:07,329 --> 00:29:11,197 I try to explain to people... 371 00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:19,335 What they can recycle and what they can compost... 372 00:29:20,342 --> 00:29:22,549 And what they should do. 373 00:29:22,761 --> 00:29:26,345 People sometimes say "but one single can?" 374 00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,591 One single can is of great importance. 375 00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:33,719 Because 99 is not 100, 376 00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:36,867 and that single one will make the difference. 377 00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:15,010 I feel disgusting. 378 00:30:19,401 --> 00:30:22,359 I can't believe you want to show me all dirty. 379 00:30:22,404 --> 00:30:24,611 So tell me Isis, how long have you worked here? 380 00:30:24,740 --> 00:30:26,981 - Five years. - Five years? 381 00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:28,774 And what's it like working here? 382 00:30:29,411 --> 00:30:31,402 - Really bad. Awful. - Really bad? 383 00:30:31,538 --> 00:30:32,538 You don't like it? 384 00:30:33,999 --> 00:30:36,240 Look vik, it's vik, right? 385 00:30:39,296 --> 00:30:40,661 This isn't a future. 386 00:30:41,006 --> 00:30:44,248 But you make good money here, right? 387 00:30:44,634 --> 00:30:48,252 Yes, I make us$20-$25 a day. 388 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,054 Beautiful! 389 00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:52,558 That's right! 390 00:30:52,809 --> 00:30:54,015 Very good! 391 00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:55,429 It really is very good. 392 00:30:56,021 --> 00:31:00,185 Think about what you're going to do when you get out of gramacho. 393 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:01,560 When you're rich and famous. 394 00:31:05,155 --> 00:31:06,770 I met someone. 395 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:12,443 And today I am in love with him. 396 00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:14,277 He is a truck driver. 397 00:31:14,331 --> 00:31:15,331 It's just that... 398 00:31:15,791 --> 00:31:17,702 I can't talk about it or I'll start to cry. 399 00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:21,701 It's been 2 weeks since we broke up. 400 00:31:28,470 --> 00:31:29,710 I really like him. 401 00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:31,837 He was a good thing in my life. 402 00:31:32,182 --> 00:31:34,047 But it's been two weeks since we broke up. 403 00:31:34,059 --> 00:31:37,051 I got a tattoo of his name on my leg. 404 00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:38,342 And you won't get back together? 405 00:31:38,688 --> 00:31:39,677 I don't think so. 406 00:31:39,689 --> 00:31:40,724 Why did you break up? 407 00:31:42,067 --> 00:31:43,307 It ended because... 408 00:31:46,488 --> 00:31:47,694 He was married. 409 00:31:49,324 --> 00:31:50,324 And so it ended. 410 00:32:20,522 --> 00:32:24,231 Look out! Get out of the way! 411 00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:44,449 I have nothing to complain about in my life. 412 00:33:45,065 --> 00:33:48,023 Nothing, nothing at all. 413 00:33:51,071 --> 00:33:54,438 Oh, man, if I complained god would punish me. 414 00:33:56,618 --> 00:33:58,108 Tell him what you want be. 415 00:33:58,453 --> 00:34:00,444 I want to be a doctor. 416 00:34:02,082 --> 00:34:03,242 What kind a doctor? 417 00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:06,040 A psychologist. 418 00:34:07,087 --> 00:34:10,079 Did you know that psychologists take care of crazy people? 419 00:34:12,509 --> 00:34:14,420 - Yeah. - No, that's not true. 420 00:34:17,764 --> 00:34:23,225 There was a woman there who was blonde. 421 00:34:24,145 --> 00:34:25,510 Oh. Beto's wifel 422 00:34:25,647 --> 00:34:33,647 and she told me that if I wanted I could be a psychologist. 423 00:34:35,657 --> 00:34:38,239 So that's why I want to be a psychologist. 424 00:34:41,246 --> 00:34:44,488 It's quiet now because there are no wars between the favelas. 425 00:34:44,499 --> 00:34:46,706 But when there are wars between the favelas... 426 00:34:47,252 --> 00:34:50,244 You can be sure that a lot of dead bodies will be dumped here. 427 00:34:51,006 --> 00:34:53,247 There are always weird things here. 428 00:34:57,721 --> 00:34:58,721 Marat! 429 00:34:59,139 --> 00:35:00,720 Yeah, who's marat? 430 00:35:00,724 --> 00:35:04,308 - Marat was an intellectual... - Oh, like me. 431 00:35:04,644 --> 00:35:07,636 Nobody else likes the guys I like. I like machiavelli. 432 00:35:07,647 --> 00:35:08,682 Machiavelli's cool. 433 00:35:08,690 --> 00:35:11,727 Who I really like is Nietzsche. What about Nietzsche? 434 00:35:11,735 --> 00:35:13,817 Nietzsche's got a great philosophy on life. 435 00:35:14,029 --> 00:35:15,439 Let's make tiao into marat. 436 00:35:15,572 --> 00:35:17,688 He died in the bathtub like this. 437 00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:22,993 - Bring that bathtub! - I'm going to play a dead guy. 438 00:35:23,580 --> 00:35:26,743 One time I was walking in the garbage and I came across this book. 439 00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:29,662 It was all muddy and on it was written "the prince" by machiavelli. 440 00:35:29,711 --> 00:35:34,501 I felt like reading it so I took it home and put it behind the fridge to dry. 441 00:35:34,591 --> 00:35:36,252 When it dried out I began to read. 442 00:35:36,259 --> 00:35:42,550 Machiavelli wrote about all of the princes of his day. 443 00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:44,590 That time period in Florence, that madness... 444 00:35:44,601 --> 00:35:47,434 It reminds me a lot of rio today, all these different fiefdoms... 445 00:35:47,437 --> 00:35:52,602 Each with their own gangs and their own fortifications. 446 00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:54,516 I got really into it. 447 00:35:54,527 --> 00:36:00,568 He talks about Moses, who became leader because god talked to him. 448 00:36:00,617 --> 00:36:03,279 And cesare borgia, because of the corrupt pope. 449 00:36:03,328 --> 00:36:10,291 That was when I was becoming President of the association. 450 00:36:10,293 --> 00:36:11,533 I learned a lot. 451 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:15,172 Be careful! 452 00:36:16,299 --> 00:36:20,258 You can get further in, and sit up a bit more. 453 00:36:20,303 --> 00:36:21,634 My legs will stick out. 454 00:36:21,638 --> 00:36:24,550 You can bend them. We'll cut that out. 455 00:36:26,226 --> 00:36:27,306 He's like this. 456 00:36:28,728 --> 00:36:29,638 That's it. 457 00:36:29,646 --> 00:36:31,807 This piece of paper is in the left hand. 458 00:36:32,065 --> 00:36:32,770 This hand. 459 00:36:32,774 --> 00:36:35,641 That's it exactly! That's right! 460 00:36:45,787 --> 00:36:47,778 - Got it! - Thank you, tido! 461 00:36:48,081 --> 00:36:49,287 Very cool, man! 462 00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:53,583 Do you want juice? Coffee? 463 00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:22,608 This is beef stew, rib stew. 464 00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:26,400 Here's boiling water to make pasta. 465 00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:31,119 Hand me that bag! 466 00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:45,093 When the market produce ends up here in boxes, it's easier for me. 467 00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:46,795 I get potatoes and vegetables. 468 00:37:46,848 --> 00:37:49,448 The drivers from the supermarket trucks bring me clean vegetables. 469 00:37:49,642 --> 00:37:57,105 If the meat truck comes, the boys get it before the expiration date. 470 00:38:08,745 --> 00:38:11,612 I am a trained cook, a restaurant cook. 471 00:38:11,831 --> 00:38:14,117 In this garbage I make many things. 472 00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:18,494 I make salads, potato, roast beef. 473 00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:21,747 When I can get a good cut of meat, I roast it for them. 474 00:38:22,133 --> 00:38:24,124 And them they get silly and sing me happy birthday, 475 00:38:24,135 --> 00:38:25,455 even though it isn't my birthday. 476 00:38:26,387 --> 00:38:32,508 We feel good in here. I feel very good. 477 00:38:32,602 --> 00:38:35,469 Even if it rains, I get the fire running to cook. 478 00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:37,308 I don't let anyone go hungry. 479 00:38:44,030 --> 00:38:48,239 - Just like that. - Like that? 480 00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:50,024 That's right, but face me! 481 00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:09,757 Don't put this on TV, I'd die. 482 00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:13,385 I first came here almost a year ago. 483 00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:17,723 My husband became unemployed. 484 00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:22,349 And we had to pay the bills, keep the household, support my son. 485 00:39:23,528 --> 00:39:25,735 We would get on the bus, and people would go like this. 486 00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:28,571 It's quite a perfume! 487 00:39:28,575 --> 00:39:31,783 It got to the point where I'd say: Excuse me ma'am, but do I stink? 488 00:39:32,078 --> 00:39:33,238 Do you smell something bad? 489 00:39:33,246 --> 00:39:35,282 It's because I was working over there in the dump. 490 00:39:36,499 --> 00:39:39,536 It's better than turning tricks in copacabana. 491 00:39:39,752 --> 00:39:42,209 I find it to be more interesting and more honest. 492 00:39:42,255 --> 00:39:43,255 It's more dignified. 493 00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:46,264 I stink now, but when I get home I'll take a shower, and it'll be fine. 494 00:39:46,759 --> 00:39:48,090 But it's disgusting. 495 00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:55,257 It's easy for you to be sitting there at home in front of your television... 496 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:58,260 Consuming whatever you want and tossing everything in the trash... 497 00:39:58,271 --> 00:40:00,432 And leaving it out on the street for the garbage truck to take it away. 498 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:01,680 But where does that garbage go? 499 00:40:04,444 --> 00:40:05,444 That's it. 500 00:40:05,695 --> 00:40:07,526 We go along. 501 00:40:07,572 --> 00:40:10,314 The fight is expensive. We have a great value. 502 00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:26,750 Come on boy! 503 00:40:27,467 --> 00:40:29,549 Come here and get your hands dirty. 504 00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:37,261 When you go to get your money you don't say it's dirty. 505 00:40:39,062 --> 00:40:40,062 Easy there. Let's go. 506 00:40:43,399 --> 00:40:45,515 Come on, come on! 507 00:40:49,238 --> 00:40:52,571 Fabio, we need to see what material you're going to use. 508 00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:56,784 Ok, so the easiest thing to decide is the carnival stuff. 509 00:40:56,788 --> 00:40:57,823 Costumes and things like that? 510 00:40:57,830 --> 00:41:02,324 Costumes and things because clear glass is no of no use for me. 511 00:41:02,543 --> 00:41:07,537 But green champagne bottles, brown beer bottles, costumes... 512 00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:09,539 You could collect things like that for me. 513 00:41:11,302 --> 00:41:14,510 Are we going to do it by weight or by tarpful? 514 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,474 How do we do it? They told me that a tarp cost us$0.40 per kilo? 515 00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:20,477 Per kilo, yeah. 516 00:41:21,270 --> 00:41:22,851 And they said that one cost us$0.70 cents? 517 00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:24,186 Yes, us$0.71 cents. 518 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:26,601 This is pet. When it makes that noise you know it's pet. 519 00:41:28,027 --> 00:41:32,145 That for example is not pet, it's pp. It's the most expensive. 520 00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:35,068 And what about brown glass? 521 00:41:35,118 --> 00:41:37,655 Glass we have to pick specially, we normally don't pick glass. 522 00:41:37,662 --> 00:41:40,028 - No? - No, normally we don't. 523 00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:42,655 - Do you have a price for it? - Glass is us$0.06 cents per kilo. 524 00:41:42,667 --> 00:41:46,455 - Six cents? It's cheaper than pet? - Yeah, it's a lot cheaper. 525 00:41:46,462 --> 00:41:48,623 - But it's a lot heavier. - But it's a lot heavier. 526 00:41:49,632 --> 00:41:52,669 What's all that mixed up over there, bottles, that hoses... 527 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,425 That's all pvc. 528 00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:58,596 Pvc is almost all made up of different objects. 529 00:41:59,392 --> 00:42:00,392 Right. 530 00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:02,220 There are jellies. 531 00:42:05,189 --> 00:42:06,645 X-rays. 532 00:42:06,649 --> 00:42:08,435 Pvc is what I will use the most. 533 00:42:09,110 --> 00:42:12,443 It gives you the feeling of being "everything". 534 00:42:12,447 --> 00:42:13,447 Of objects. 535 00:42:13,990 --> 00:42:19,610 For me pvc is the filet mignon definitely. 536 00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:24,698 And I'll use the pet and glass more as filler. 537 00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:26,700 To fill it up. 538 00:42:37,096 --> 00:42:39,337 - Just white paper. - Pet, metals. 539 00:42:40,099 --> 00:42:42,090 Just white paper. 540 00:42:42,101 --> 00:42:43,432 Watch the truck! 541 00:42:43,978 --> 00:42:46,185 Here it comes! 542 00:42:46,189 --> 00:42:50,102 Watch the truck! 543 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,444 Before coming to the landfill, we had a calm life. 544 00:42:55,615 --> 00:42:58,106 My mother still lived with my father. 545 00:42:58,117 --> 00:43:03,202 I was the oldest and I had two younger brothers. 546 00:43:03,247 --> 00:43:05,704 But then my father died. 547 00:43:06,709 --> 00:43:11,043 You're sowing, throwing grain like this. 548 00:43:11,130 --> 00:43:12,290 - I'm sowing. - Yeah. 549 00:43:12,632 --> 00:43:16,124 This hand here can be relaxed and open. 550 00:43:18,638 --> 00:43:21,471 My mother was struggling. 551 00:43:21,516 --> 00:43:23,472 We heard about jardim gramacho. 552 00:43:23,476 --> 00:43:26,718 My mother came here, and then I came too. 553 00:43:26,771 --> 00:43:28,477 I started to help her out. 554 00:43:28,564 --> 00:43:30,225 I was nine years old. 555 00:43:31,067 --> 00:43:34,480 My mother worked here for a while, but then she died as well. 556 00:43:45,414 --> 00:43:47,621 Once, I was collecting here on the ramp... 557 00:43:47,750 --> 00:43:50,082 When the gate of the garbage truck fell off. 558 00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:55,664 It fell on me, and started to drag me and crush me... 559 00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:57,669 I broke my leg, my arm. 560 00:43:57,718 --> 00:44:00,505 I fractured a rib. 561 00:44:02,265 --> 00:44:06,429 I broke my other arm here. I was in really bad shape. 562 00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:10,262 If it weren't for my friends here... 563 00:44:10,273 --> 00:44:12,309 Over 20 people donated blood. 564 00:44:12,358 --> 00:44:17,603 It was great for the hospital because their blood bank was filled. 565 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:20,772 People here gave me a lot of support. 566 00:46:48,097 --> 00:46:50,257 It's better than during the day, there are less people. 567 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:52,202 It's better than being out there... 568 00:46:52,226 --> 00:46:54,262 Like a lot of people, prostituting yourself. 569 00:46:54,645 --> 00:46:56,601 We are working honestly. 570 00:46:57,273 --> 00:46:58,683 We're earning our living. 571 00:47:06,032 --> 00:47:07,647 I've worked since I was seven years old. 572 00:47:08,993 --> 00:47:10,153 Now I'm 18. 573 00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:14,654 I eat what I find around here. 574 00:47:15,124 --> 00:47:16,705 I take it from the truck. 575 00:47:18,461 --> 00:47:21,453 Yogurt comes along, whatever comes along, I eat it. 576 00:47:23,049 --> 00:47:26,541 If I don't die, it's not bad. I can get by. 577 00:47:28,012 --> 00:47:31,755 We see things that aren't pleasant. 578 00:47:35,436 --> 00:47:38,724 Like the other day I went up there and something made me throw up... 579 00:47:38,731 --> 00:47:42,269 There was a baby there that had been thrown away. 580 00:47:42,485 --> 00:47:44,271 I fell over backwards. 581 00:47:45,029 --> 00:47:46,469 I immediately thought of my own kids. 582 00:47:48,032 --> 00:47:50,023 - It was dead? - Yes. 583 00:47:53,537 --> 00:47:56,028 Rent is us$8 per week. 584 00:47:57,291 --> 00:48:00,704 If you are late and pay on Monday it's us$13. 585 00:48:04,256 --> 00:48:09,091 I go home to see my kids every couple of weeks. 586 00:48:09,345 --> 00:48:13,054 Sometimes I'll just go and come back on the same day. 587 00:48:14,266 --> 00:48:16,803 My daughter is three years old, my son is almost two. 588 00:48:20,106 --> 00:48:26,477 Their father is a drug dealer. If I counted on him, I'd be screwed. 589 00:48:33,494 --> 00:48:36,531 Sometimes I get visitors, the rats. 590 00:48:37,540 --> 00:48:39,781 They run around in the roof. It drives me crazy. 591 00:48:39,792 --> 00:48:41,532 I run out of here screaming. 592 00:48:45,506 --> 00:48:46,983 Even when they're asleep, they annoy me. 593 00:48:47,007 --> 00:48:49,498 They fall off the roof onto the bed sometimes. 594 00:48:55,558 --> 00:48:56,343 Bye. 595 00:48:56,559 --> 00:48:58,390 - Leaving already? - Yes. 596 00:49:02,356 --> 00:49:05,098 My daughter caught a fungus. 597 00:49:06,026 --> 00:49:09,109 My mother also got the fungus. The thing covered her foot. 598 00:49:10,072 --> 00:49:11,812 It messed up her whole foot. 599 00:49:12,783 --> 00:49:15,069 She ended up staying at home and taking care of my kids. 600 00:49:17,288 --> 00:49:19,153 - Where are you going? - Home. 601 00:49:25,588 --> 00:49:29,080 I would like to take care of children. 602 00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:32,254 I really love children, my own as well as other people's. 603 00:49:33,554 --> 00:49:35,590 If it was up to me, I'd open a day care center. 604 00:49:36,599 --> 00:49:38,430 There are so many children. 605 00:49:46,358 --> 00:49:50,067 Come here you beautiful thing. 606 00:49:58,621 --> 00:50:00,987 How are you? 607 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,452 Come here you beautiful thing. 608 00:50:04,793 --> 00:50:07,375 Give mommy a kiss! Give me a kiss! 609 00:50:13,177 --> 00:50:14,292 And you? Are you ok? 610 00:50:15,596 --> 00:50:16,596 No? 611 00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:17,639 No? 612 00:50:17,681 --> 00:50:18,681 What's going on? 613 00:50:22,144 --> 00:50:23,384 And you? Are you ok? 614 00:50:26,357 --> 00:50:27,688 Here is our kitchen. 615 00:50:27,733 --> 00:50:30,645 It's small, but you can still make a little something in it. 616 00:50:31,403 --> 00:50:33,860 We make food on that stove. 617 00:50:34,657 --> 00:50:40,573 Here is the living room where we put a bunc of junk. 618 00:50:40,746 --> 00:50:42,156 The bathroom is here. 619 00:50:44,833 --> 00:50:47,040 Oh this bathroom is bad, cut the bathroom. 620 00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:51,166 Here's the bedroom. 621 00:50:51,173 --> 00:50:54,415 This isn't a bed, it's really just a chest of drawers. 622 00:50:55,261 --> 00:50:57,673 We improvised and put the mattress on top. 623 00:50:58,222 --> 00:51:00,463 Everyone sleeps piled up here. 624 00:51:00,724 --> 00:51:03,761 Here's the most recent baby of the house. 625 00:51:13,279 --> 00:51:16,066 TV. Fan. 626 00:51:16,282 --> 00:51:20,446 I moved here after I split from their father. 627 00:51:21,161 --> 00:51:25,245 He beat me and I got so hurt, I had to get out of there. 628 00:51:25,249 --> 00:51:28,412 And there was no other way to survive, so I stayed here. 629 00:51:28,460 --> 00:51:31,418 She is my eldest and she took care of the kids so I could work. 630 00:51:31,672 --> 00:51:34,254 We had to survive somehow. 631 00:51:36,552 --> 00:51:38,713 After a while, we all had to go to the garbage. 632 00:51:38,721 --> 00:51:41,201 There was no one to leave them with, so I brought them with me. 633 00:51:42,474 --> 00:51:45,090 I moved in with their father when I was twelve. 634 00:51:52,651 --> 00:51:54,061 I'm proud of my work... 635 00:51:54,069 --> 00:51:58,028 Because at least I'm not involved with the drug traffic... 636 00:51:58,115 --> 00:52:02,028 Or prostituting myself, like a lot of pretty girls around here do. 637 00:52:02,328 --> 00:52:05,240 They could be trying to achieve something in life, but no. 638 00:52:05,289 --> 00:52:10,249 They prefer to throw themselves out there onto the street... 639 00:52:11,754 --> 00:52:13,335 Prostituting themselves. 640 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:00,760 Right there. 641 00:53:01,261 --> 00:53:04,503 Magnetic tape. 642 00:53:05,391 --> 00:53:06,391 Is that film? 643 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,808 Yes, there are a lot of rolls up there. 644 00:53:09,812 --> 00:53:11,177 I'm going to be Mona Lisa. 645 00:53:17,361 --> 00:53:18,361 What's that? 646 00:53:18,570 --> 00:53:21,778 It has be a woman of a certain age to wear shoes like that. 647 00:53:22,491 --> 00:53:24,823 She must have worked as an executive, right? 648 00:53:25,494 --> 00:53:27,576 To work in a shoe with a pointy toe like that? 649 00:53:28,372 --> 00:53:32,115 Here's a tape. They must have a camera. 650 00:53:32,126 --> 00:53:34,082 - A camera film. - And they've got a computer. 651 00:53:34,086 --> 00:53:36,543 This trash is totally middle class. 652 00:53:36,547 --> 00:53:37,832 Wait a minute, playboy? 653 00:53:38,090 --> 00:53:39,170 "Dear subscriber... 654 00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:44,381 You are now part of an exclusive club that receives playboy... 655 00:53:44,388 --> 00:53:46,549 The best men's magazine in the country." 656 00:53:46,598 --> 00:53:48,759 This guy liked... 657 00:53:49,143 --> 00:53:50,258 And then he died. 658 00:53:52,396 --> 00:53:56,355 This guy didn't have a lot of money. 659 00:53:56,567 --> 00:53:57,226 This one here? 660 00:53:57,234 --> 00:53:59,600 This comes from poor people because it comes in little bags. 661 00:53:59,778 --> 00:54:02,578 - "Poor is the trash of the poor." - I put my trash in little bags too. 662 00:54:03,323 --> 00:54:05,689 To think you guys have gone through my trash. 663 00:54:16,086 --> 00:54:19,123 Actually I like this picture. 664 00:54:20,716 --> 00:54:23,082 What we should do how is get rid of... 665 00:54:23,385 --> 00:54:25,421 Is choose the best pictures. 666 00:54:27,055 --> 00:54:28,716 This one. So good. 667 00:54:28,807 --> 00:54:29,807 Yeah, I love it too. 668 00:54:33,103 --> 00:54:34,309 Super super strong. 669 00:54:34,354 --> 00:54:35,594 This is super strong. 670 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:39,856 This is super strong, also. 671 00:54:43,113 --> 00:54:46,105 I love Isis and suelem but these shots aren't quite right. 672 00:54:46,492 --> 00:54:48,403 We can shoot them in the studio also. 673 00:54:49,411 --> 00:54:51,197 Yeah, it's not a problem. 674 00:54:51,663 --> 00:54:53,654 - How's it going? - What's up? 675 00:54:55,667 --> 00:54:56,827 How are you? 676 00:54:58,170 --> 00:55:01,458 Everyone who goes to a museum, goes up to a painting... 677 00:55:01,465 --> 00:55:04,582 And then they stop and start to go like this. 678 00:55:07,137 --> 00:55:08,468 Have you seen this? Everyone does it. 679 00:55:08,472 --> 00:55:10,133 - Are they drunk? - It looks like it. 680 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:13,678 They go like this, and then they go back... 681 00:55:13,685 --> 00:55:15,175 Maybe take a little step back. 682 00:55:15,187 --> 00:55:16,518 And then they see the image. 683 00:55:16,522 --> 00:55:22,017 Imagine it's a beautiful landscape with a lake and a man fishing. 684 00:55:22,444 --> 00:55:24,150 They look and see the man fishing... 685 00:55:24,279 --> 00:55:28,648 And they lean in an everything vanishes and becomes paint. 686 00:55:29,243 --> 00:55:31,404 They see the material. 687 00:55:31,453 --> 00:55:33,694 They move away and see the image. 688 00:55:33,705 --> 00:55:36,321 They get closer and see the material. 689 00:55:36,458 --> 00:55:38,369 They move away and see the idea. 690 00:55:38,418 --> 00:55:41,330 They get closer and see just the material. 691 00:55:41,338 --> 00:55:43,454 Since we're pickers, we just see recyclable materials. 692 00:55:43,465 --> 00:55:44,526 - It earns money. - But that's interesting... 693 00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:45,630 You have one point of view. 694 00:55:47,219 --> 00:55:50,131 I got it what this can do with people. 695 00:55:50,138 --> 00:55:56,509 I bet you people stay much longer at your exhibits than anyone does. 696 00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:58,727 They'll spend so much time looking at the image... 697 00:55:58,730 --> 00:56:03,474 Because then they'll see the ladder, the piano. 698 00:56:03,485 --> 00:56:05,396 They'll look at everything. 699 00:56:05,529 --> 00:56:08,191 They'll spend hours looking at the same picture. 700 00:56:08,198 --> 00:56:11,156 When one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. 701 00:56:11,201 --> 00:56:14,693 A combination of sounds transforms into music. 702 00:56:14,705 --> 00:56:15,740 And that applies to everything. 703 00:56:15,747 --> 00:56:18,739 That moment is really magical. 704 00:56:22,170 --> 00:56:23,170 Looks good. 705 00:56:25,424 --> 00:56:28,382 You want to dress up like mommy, in a sheet? 706 00:56:29,761 --> 00:56:33,003 Let me see here. You're going to be just like a little Saint. 707 00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:38,759 You're going to sit here. 708 00:56:39,438 --> 00:56:42,271 Move your legs a bit, is that ok? 709 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:46,360 That's it. 710 00:56:49,197 --> 00:56:50,562 Didn't it come out beautifully? 711 00:56:53,201 --> 00:56:55,317 This whole area will be filled in with stuff. 712 00:56:55,329 --> 00:56:57,285 And it will be clearer at the sides. 713 00:56:57,289 --> 00:56:58,369 Exactly. 714 00:56:59,041 --> 00:57:04,206 When you are placing the materials, follow the shadows of the picture. 715 00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:28,399 Did you just do this one? 716 00:57:29,071 --> 00:57:33,314 Do the same thing with the shorter one. 717 00:57:34,034 --> 00:57:37,071 I want to close this here and see if it makes more sense like that. 718 00:57:38,330 --> 00:57:40,571 See this line going up... 719 00:57:41,416 --> 00:57:44,453 Is there a way to take something away here? 720 00:57:44,461 --> 00:57:45,496 Take off one more. 721 00:57:49,091 --> 00:57:50,091 That's it. 722 00:58:11,279 --> 00:58:13,440 Brooke de ocampo, Isis. 723 00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:15,446 - Hi, how are you? - Suelen. 724 00:58:16,201 --> 00:58:17,111 This is magna. 725 00:58:17,119 --> 00:58:18,279 - Hi. - How are you? 726 00:58:18,537 --> 00:58:25,158 Brooke has a super important job at an international auction company. 727 00:58:25,419 --> 00:58:29,833 So we're going to make a really big photograph of this. 728 00:58:30,048 --> 00:58:34,667 And she's already agreed to take it to an international sale. 729 00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:39,134 There'll be a guy with a hammer, going, going, going, gone. 730 00:58:41,977 --> 00:58:43,513 Suelen and her two kids. 731 00:58:45,147 --> 00:58:48,310 It all started by the feeling that we should do something... 732 00:58:48,608 --> 00:58:51,645 That will convert back to them. 733 00:58:51,653 --> 00:58:54,690 We'll make something out of garbage... 734 00:58:54,740 --> 00:58:56,446 And it would be sold for a lot of money. 735 00:58:56,533 --> 00:59:02,153 And it will become something they would put their hands on to help them. 736 00:59:02,164 --> 00:59:06,578 And in the end, they won't say: "Vik did it. 737 00:59:06,626 --> 00:59:07,240 Right. 738 00:59:07,461 --> 00:59:08,576 - We did it. - Right. 739 00:59:23,101 --> 00:59:25,581 I had just arrived from the bank and given the money to Gloria. 740 00:59:25,645 --> 00:59:30,264 I was standing by the door and I saw him 741 00:59:31,443 --> 00:59:33,559 and another man coming towards us with a pointed gun. 742 00:59:34,279 --> 00:59:35,769 They told us not to move. 743 00:59:36,448 --> 00:59:39,190 And they took everybody's wages. 744 00:59:40,118 --> 00:59:41,449 How much money was there? 745 00:59:41,620 --> 00:59:45,033 Six... us$6,000. 746 00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:53,704 I keep asking myself if it's worth it. 747 00:59:56,593 --> 00:59:57,708 And the comission? 748 00:59:58,261 --> 01:00:05,303 Sometimes I just feel like giving up on all of this. 749 01:00:09,064 --> 01:00:10,520 I don't want to be here anymore. 750 01:00:41,304 --> 01:00:43,295 The presents are this small. 751 01:00:54,609 --> 01:01:02,609 Try making it gradually darker from here to here, does that make sense? 752 01:01:14,212 --> 01:01:15,668 Good work everyone. 753 01:01:44,659 --> 01:01:45,694 It came out beautifully! 754 01:01:46,328 --> 01:01:49,320 That's not garbage, it's recyclable material, it's money. 755 01:01:49,748 --> 01:01:50,748 A lot of money. 756 01:02:09,726 --> 01:02:12,138 Oh man that's crazy. 757 01:02:12,562 --> 01:02:14,598 It looks exactly like me. 758 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,351 Oh, my! Man! 759 01:02:18,735 --> 01:02:21,602 I never imagined I'd become a work of art. 760 01:02:25,617 --> 01:02:26,617 Take a look. 761 01:03:19,170 --> 01:03:20,170 See? 762 01:03:20,422 --> 01:03:21,161 That's me? 763 01:03:21,172 --> 01:03:24,164 Yes ma'am, that's your arm. 764 01:03:26,636 --> 01:03:28,172 It's this photo right here. 765 01:03:28,263 --> 01:03:29,628 You're looking in that direction... 766 01:03:29,639 --> 01:03:31,425 - That's your arm. - I see. 767 01:03:31,433 --> 01:03:34,220 Everything is made out of recyclable materials from the landfill. 768 01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:37,226 I see. How charming! 769 01:03:39,024 --> 01:03:41,015 It's so well done. Excuse me while I have a look over here. 770 01:03:41,026 --> 01:03:43,187 - Come on, come on, look. - My god. 771 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,236 Let's see if I understand it right. 772 01:03:47,282 --> 01:03:49,022 Oh yes. I understand! 773 01:03:50,035 --> 01:03:51,241 Here's the arm. 774 01:03:51,745 --> 01:03:53,360 I understand. 775 01:03:57,375 --> 01:03:58,615 It's all recyclable materials. 776 01:04:14,017 --> 01:04:15,017 Look at this. 777 01:04:20,398 --> 01:04:21,979 As far as you can see. 778 01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:23,644 You see huge buildings. 779 01:04:23,651 --> 01:04:25,687 It becomes sort of a textural thing. 780 01:04:25,737 --> 01:04:27,227 You lose that sense of scale. 781 01:04:27,238 --> 01:04:28,694 It starts to look small... 782 01:04:28,698 --> 01:04:30,188 And like it's just like hair. 783 01:04:31,242 --> 01:04:32,482 It's not a pretty place. 784 01:04:32,744 --> 01:04:35,030 Except when you look from very far away. 785 01:04:38,458 --> 01:04:40,073 This is where I grew up. 786 01:04:41,002 --> 01:04:43,664 Every time we talk about some friend... 787 01:04:43,671 --> 01:04:44,330 That lived here... 788 01:04:44,339 --> 01:04:45,579 Then we say "oh he died!” 789 01:04:46,466 --> 01:04:48,047 So many of them died. 790 01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:50,257 They died from drug traffic... 791 01:04:50,261 --> 01:04:52,047 Or they died from all kinds of stuff. 792 01:04:53,515 --> 01:04:55,426 That used to be my room... 793 01:04:55,433 --> 01:04:56,513 When I was a kid. 794 01:04:57,310 --> 01:04:59,050 Now it's just the guest room. 795 01:05:00,271 --> 01:05:03,013 There was always a lot of humidity on the walls... 796 01:05:03,024 --> 01:05:06,357 Because Sao pualo is very rainy all the time. 797 01:05:06,486 --> 01:05:08,067 I used to have my bed here... 798 01:05:08,238 --> 01:05:11,605 And there were all these stains. 799 01:05:12,283 --> 01:05:14,274 I used to make a diary... 800 01:05:14,327 --> 01:05:16,283 Of how the stains would develop. 801 01:05:17,622 --> 01:05:20,034 This used to be a very rough neighborhood. 802 01:05:20,291 --> 01:05:22,782 Now it's becoming sort of a low... 803 01:05:24,254 --> 01:05:27,291 Low middle class neighborhood. 804 01:05:27,757 --> 01:05:28,712 But it's safe... 805 01:05:28,716 --> 01:05:31,048 And people can live here decently. 806 01:05:31,469 --> 01:05:33,255 I was never... 807 01:05:35,014 --> 01:05:36,470 Ashamed of being poor. 808 01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:40,012 And I was always proud of my parents. 809 01:05:42,230 --> 01:05:47,315 I bought this lot in 1963, and 1 built this house with difficulty. 810 01:05:48,153 --> 01:05:52,271 When I moved here it was dirt, there were no paved roads, nothing. 811 01:05:52,323 --> 01:05:56,987 There was no running water, no sewage. 812 01:05:57,996 --> 01:06:00,676 Thanks god, now it's the opposite. Today we have everything we need. 813 01:06:00,790 --> 01:06:08,504 We got here with some difficulty, but with dignity. 814 01:06:11,134 --> 01:06:12,590 My grandmother brought me up... 815 01:06:12,635 --> 01:06:14,091 Because my mother... 816 01:06:14,345 --> 01:06:16,085 Had to work at the phone company. 817 01:06:16,347 --> 01:06:18,133 And my father he worked at night... 818 01:06:18,141 --> 01:06:19,756 Sometimes he worked two shifts. 819 01:06:20,310 --> 01:06:21,550 This is Ana Rocha... 820 01:06:21,811 --> 01:06:23,347 The most important woman... 821 01:06:23,354 --> 01:06:24,354 In my life. 822 01:06:25,607 --> 01:06:27,563 She is 93 years old. 823 01:06:29,319 --> 01:06:31,605 I told them you were 70 years old. 824 01:06:32,447 --> 01:06:33,447 That's right. 825 01:07:01,226 --> 01:07:04,013 I'm getting stiff from lying in this position. 826 01:07:06,397 --> 01:07:08,308 Artists have to suffer, don't you know? 827 01:07:09,067 --> 01:07:11,399 Who told you that, vik? 828 01:07:11,402 --> 01:07:13,188 Honey, I just know. I'm on the inside now. 829 01:07:13,196 --> 01:07:15,653 Man, you're becoming an artist. 830 01:07:15,657 --> 01:07:17,238 It's all vik's fault. 831 01:07:18,159 --> 01:07:21,617 Vik's made you conceited, vik and fabio. 832 01:07:22,413 --> 01:07:24,324 That's what they keep saying at home. 833 01:07:28,711 --> 01:07:32,704 I don't see myself I the trash anymore. 834 01:07:33,591 --> 01:07:34,591 I really don't. 835 01:07:43,476 --> 01:07:44,476 I don't know. 836 01:07:49,190 --> 01:07:51,070 I don't want to go back to the garbage. I don't. 837 01:07:58,700 --> 01:08:06,448 I told fabio: Just let me stay. Even if I only get us$150 a month. 838 01:08:06,457 --> 01:08:08,118 But please just let me stay here. 839 01:08:08,459 --> 01:08:11,622 I don't want to go back to the garbage. 840 01:08:15,717 --> 01:08:17,002 A little more in profile. 841 01:08:21,347 --> 01:08:25,010 The sad story is that I lost my son when he was three years old. 842 01:08:25,768 --> 01:08:29,352 I saw my son die when he was three years old. 843 01:08:30,273 --> 01:08:32,434 I was at the hospital with him for three days. 844 01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:34,474 I saw him dying. 845 01:08:35,486 --> 01:08:38,023 Breathing his last breaths and everything. 846 01:08:38,698 --> 01:08:40,359 He had acute pneumonia. 847 01:08:40,366 --> 01:08:43,449 He was throwing up little pieces of his lungs. 848 01:08:46,664 --> 01:08:51,249 They called me to identify my son's body. It was on top of a stone. 849 01:08:51,586 --> 01:08:55,124 It was wrapped in black plastic... 850 01:08:55,506 --> 01:08:59,419 With a big sign with his name, Carlos Igor. 851 01:09:00,303 --> 01:09:02,385 I fell over, I fainted. 852 01:09:02,388 --> 01:09:06,347 I couldn't believe that it was my son. 853 01:09:06,684 --> 01:09:10,597 I asked them to take the plastic off because he was too hot. 854 01:09:12,398 --> 01:09:16,357 After that my husband left me and he took my daughter away from me. 855 01:09:16,778 --> 01:09:21,238 She's eight now, when my son died she was two. 856 01:09:21,282 --> 01:09:23,773 I never saw her again. Not since she was two. 857 01:09:24,035 --> 01:09:25,991 I forgot my life, I forgot everything, 858 01:09:25,995 --> 01:09:27,781 I forgot that I had a life, a house, everything. 859 01:09:27,789 --> 01:09:29,495 I started going out all the time. 860 01:09:29,791 --> 01:09:31,769 The only thing I didn't do was do drugs, thank god. 861 01:09:31,793 --> 01:09:35,752 But I started going out and drinking and getting wasted. 862 01:09:35,755 --> 01:09:38,246 I started drinking moonshine all the time. 863 01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:44,719 My son was so beautiful, he was very beautiful. 864 01:09:44,764 --> 01:09:46,241 I lost the last photograph I had of him. 865 01:09:46,265 --> 01:09:48,472 It was in my wallet that was stolen. 866 01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:51,425 But I don't forget anything. 867 01:09:51,437 --> 01:09:53,644 I don't forget the tiniest details. 868 01:09:54,273 --> 01:09:55,558 At the morgue, 869 01:09:55,566 --> 01:09:58,308 there was a little ant crawling on his face because of the flowers. 870 01:09:58,403 --> 01:10:01,395 I made a scene to get that ant off my son's body. 871 01:10:01,406 --> 01:10:06,116 I don't forget a single detail not a single, single one. 872 01:10:12,250 --> 01:10:14,081 I'll print a photograph for you. 873 01:10:16,462 --> 01:10:17,497 No. 874 01:10:19,257 --> 01:10:21,498 Isis, you're not supposed to cry. 875 01:10:21,551 --> 01:10:22,551 Come here. 876 01:10:23,177 --> 01:10:24,177 Thank you. 877 01:10:25,430 --> 01:10:27,341 - Did you like it? - Yes. 878 01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,426 Remember that first day at jardim gramacho? 879 01:10:29,434 --> 01:10:30,594 Did you think that that lunatic... 880 01:10:30,601 --> 01:10:32,641 With the camera was going to do something like this? 881 01:10:34,522 --> 01:10:36,228 Not in my wildest dreams. 882 01:10:36,607 --> 01:10:38,438 I think we have to be careful... 883 01:10:38,484 --> 01:10:41,100 Because I really can see already... 884 01:10:41,279 --> 01:10:45,397 How delicate the whole situation of having them there.. 885 01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:46,189 Is for them. 886 01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:47,235 For their minds. 887 01:10:47,452 --> 01:10:50,364 They totally forgot about gramacho. 888 01:10:50,371 --> 01:10:51,432 They don't want to go back. 889 01:10:51,456 --> 01:10:54,698 At the beginning at least I had the impression... 890 01:10:55,251 --> 01:10:56,707 And now I think this is wrong... 891 01:10:56,711 --> 01:10:58,247 That they were happy there. 892 01:10:58,713 --> 01:11:00,499 And I think that it has a lot to do with denial. 893 01:11:00,506 --> 01:11:03,464 I think that is where you reach the point where you think about... 894 01:11:03,634 --> 01:11:05,716 Should you take them to London? 895 01:11:05,803 --> 01:11:09,546 I think it's quite a... It's a super delicate question. 896 01:11:09,599 --> 01:11:13,057 If you are starting to change them already... 897 01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:15,055 Just bringing them to the other studio... 898 01:11:15,062 --> 01:11:17,223 Just involving them in a different lifestyle... 899 01:11:17,231 --> 01:11:18,061 In rio... 900 01:11:18,149 --> 01:11:20,435 What's going to happen to them once you take them... 901 01:11:20,485 --> 01:11:22,066 Once you put them on a plane? 902 01:11:22,236 --> 01:11:25,444 You were saying oh this is going to mess with their minds. 903 01:11:26,073 --> 01:11:27,609 Well, maybe... 904 01:11:27,658 --> 01:11:30,445 Their minds need to be messed up with. 905 01:11:30,536 --> 01:11:32,026 But if take them... 906 01:11:32,038 --> 01:11:35,155 And say hello life is different... 907 01:11:35,166 --> 01:11:36,576 You can do this, you could do that.. 908 01:11:36,751 --> 01:11:38,287 Is it realistic enough... 909 01:11:38,294 --> 01:11:40,660 What can they do... 910 01:11:40,671 --> 01:11:42,536 With that afterwards here? 911 01:11:42,590 --> 01:11:45,377 It is really hard for me to imagine doing something... 912 01:11:45,384 --> 01:11:47,716 That would do much damage to them. 913 01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:50,507 Do worse than what has been done to them already. 914 01:11:51,057 --> 01:11:54,299 Why do you have to take somebody's life and change it forever? 915 01:11:54,310 --> 01:11:56,596 As long as you think the person can cope with it. 916 01:11:56,604 --> 01:11:57,309 Afterwards. 917 01:11:57,355 --> 01:12:01,519 But if you are not sure the person can deal with it... 918 01:12:01,526 --> 01:12:02,641 People are fragile. 919 01:12:02,652 --> 01:12:04,062 It is my responsibility. 920 01:12:04,070 --> 01:12:06,311 That's what I think. 921 01:12:06,489 --> 01:12:08,275 Your responsibility. 922 01:12:08,282 --> 01:12:09,021 But let me answer that. 923 01:12:09,033 --> 01:12:09,317 Let me talk. But let me answer that. 924 01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:10,110 Let me talk. 925 01:12:10,117 --> 01:12:10,401 Let me talk. Let me answer that! 926 01:12:10,409 --> 01:12:11,239 Let me answer that! 927 01:12:11,285 --> 01:12:12,320 You don't let me talk. 928 01:12:12,620 --> 01:12:14,030 You're saying it is not my responsibility... 929 01:12:14,038 --> 01:12:15,278 He doesn't let me talk! 930 01:12:15,289 --> 01:12:16,074 I am saying it is. 931 01:12:16,082 --> 01:12:18,323 Let me for one moment... 932 01:12:18,334 --> 01:12:19,665 Think about something else here. 933 01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:23,794 These guys are going to the studio... 934 01:12:23,798 --> 01:12:24,583 And they are saying... 935 01:12:24,590 --> 01:12:26,501 "I don't want to go back to gramacho." 936 01:12:26,759 --> 01:12:29,375 Is that something bad one way or another? 937 01:12:29,428 --> 01:12:30,338 No that's good. 938 01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:31,552 Isn't this good? 939 01:12:31,556 --> 01:12:33,547 Maybe they will have to go and they will have to think... 940 01:12:33,558 --> 01:12:35,344 Of a plan to get out of there. 941 01:12:35,601 --> 01:12:38,138 They get to see another reality. 942 01:12:38,187 --> 01:12:40,394 And that changes their way of thinking. 943 01:12:41,607 --> 01:12:45,145 It's hard for me. 944 01:12:45,152 --> 01:12:46,562 It changes their way of thinking. 945 01:12:46,612 --> 01:12:47,226 It does. 946 01:12:47,238 --> 01:12:48,694 For some people it changes their way of thinking... 947 01:12:48,698 --> 01:12:50,359 For some people... 948 01:12:50,366 --> 01:12:50,695 They just go to bed better... 949 01:12:50,700 --> 01:12:52,361 Because they think they did something. 950 01:12:58,332 --> 01:13:01,574 I don't think if I was a catador in jardim gramacho... 951 01:13:02,044 --> 01:13:06,208 And somebody said to me listen do you want to come do this thing... 952 01:13:06,257 --> 01:13:07,292 Work two weeks... 953 01:13:07,341 --> 01:13:08,376 In an artists studio... 954 01:13:08,384 --> 01:13:09,749 Making a portrait of yourself... 955 01:13:10,344 --> 01:13:13,461 And by the way we may take you to a foreign country... 956 01:13:13,764 --> 01:13:15,504 But at the end of all of this... 957 01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:17,006 You'll be back here... 958 01:13:17,393 --> 01:13:18,508 Collecting garbage... 959 01:13:18,561 --> 01:13:19,641 Would you like to come? 960 01:13:21,188 --> 01:13:22,724 I know that I would say yes. 961 01:13:28,779 --> 01:13:29,779 Got it. 962 01:13:30,615 --> 01:13:32,606 A year of garbage has gone by. 963 01:13:35,661 --> 01:13:36,661 Let's go. 964 01:13:39,790 --> 01:13:44,625 Here's wisdom a plenty, nineteen is not twenty. 965 01:13:45,087 --> 01:13:46,702 99 is not 100. 966 01:13:48,716 --> 01:13:49,716 Hi vik. 967 01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,165 It's the marat that's going? 968 01:13:52,637 --> 01:13:54,173 It's going to be great. 969 01:13:54,680 --> 01:14:00,391 I'm already dreaming about being there. 970 01:14:02,229 --> 01:14:05,642 I'm going to London, and you're not. 971 01:14:30,174 --> 01:14:32,085 Hey what are you doing here man? 972 01:14:34,762 --> 01:14:36,718 Check out that long hair! 973 01:14:48,025 --> 01:14:49,231 There's so much excess. 974 01:14:51,237 --> 01:14:55,276 There's so much excess that it becomes art. 975 01:15:00,454 --> 01:15:02,035 Check out the garbage bag. 976 01:15:07,378 --> 01:15:09,178 Except you can't open it, it's made of bronze. 977 01:15:10,381 --> 01:15:13,248 Painted bronze. 978 01:15:14,385 --> 01:15:16,751 Can you tell what's in there? 979 01:15:16,804 --> 01:15:22,595 There are definitely yogurt cups, hearts of palm. 980 01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:25,517 Some boxes. 981 01:15:25,730 --> 01:15:31,691 Looks like someone bought a new cell phone and threw away the box. 982 01:15:31,777 --> 01:15:36,567 - It looks like I could just pick it up. - It's great. 983 01:15:36,615 --> 01:15:39,277 This was made by a British artist named Gavin turk. 984 01:15:40,369 --> 01:15:42,781 This guy is a really great artist too. 985 01:15:42,788 --> 01:15:44,369 He used to sleep on the streets. 986 01:15:44,749 --> 01:15:47,286 His name is Jean-Michel basquiat. 987 01:15:48,002 --> 01:15:54,749 This was done by the guy who is the most expensive living artist, 988 01:15:54,759 --> 01:15:55,794 Damien hirst. 989 01:15:58,220 --> 01:15:59,300 It's a pharmacy. 990 01:15:59,346 --> 01:16:01,587 Yeah, just drugs on a shelf. 991 01:16:01,974 --> 01:16:02,974 Just drugs. 992 01:16:05,102 --> 01:16:08,640 It will probably go for about one million dollars. 993 01:16:10,024 --> 01:16:12,481 Dermatological cream. 994 01:16:16,447 --> 01:16:18,108 It is a very fine work. 995 01:16:18,115 --> 01:16:20,197 There is strong demand for works... 996 01:16:20,201 --> 01:16:21,532 By vik muniz. 997 01:16:21,619 --> 01:16:24,235 So I do hope obviously that his risk... 998 01:16:24,288 --> 01:16:25,448 Is going to pay off. 999 01:16:25,790 --> 01:16:27,030 It's going to work out. 1000 01:16:27,291 --> 01:16:28,371 Let'see. 1001 01:16:28,375 --> 01:16:29,495 It's going to work, come on. 1002 01:16:31,045 --> 01:16:33,582 It's a very bold step... 1003 01:16:33,589 --> 01:16:34,624 For vik muniz... 1004 01:16:34,757 --> 01:16:36,418 To consign a work... 1005 01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:38,040 Directly to an auction. 1006 01:16:38,302 --> 01:16:39,302 In the past... 1007 01:16:39,386 --> 01:16:40,501 Artists would go through... 1008 01:16:40,596 --> 01:16:42,177 What you call... 1009 01:16:42,181 --> 01:16:43,341 The primary market. 1010 01:16:43,349 --> 01:16:45,340 They would be sold for the first time... 1011 01:16:45,351 --> 01:16:46,351 In a gallery. 1012 01:16:48,437 --> 01:16:49,437 Thank you. 1013 01:16:49,522 --> 01:16:52,309 Lot number 225... 1014 01:16:52,733 --> 01:16:54,598 Nine multi-colored marilyns... 1015 01:16:54,819 --> 01:16:56,229 By Andy warhol 1016 01:16:56,529 --> 01:16:59,236 are you nervous? I'm really nervous. 1017 01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:01,652 Even when botafogo plays for the championship. 1018 01:17:01,659 --> 01:17:03,490 I don't get this nervous. 1019 01:17:03,828 --> 01:17:04,567 Hold on. 1020 01:17:04,620 --> 01:17:05,620 Last chance. 1021 01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:07,536 Sold. What's your number? 1022 01:17:07,540 --> 01:17:08,996 12..5 1023 01:17:09,041 --> 01:17:10,041 thank you so much. 1024 01:17:10,417 --> 01:17:12,408 It's now, it's now. 1025 01:17:12,419 --> 01:17:12,532 Lot number 272. It's now, it's now. 1026 01:17:12,545 --> 01:17:15,787 Lot number 272. 1027 01:17:16,590 --> 01:17:19,377 The great work by vik muniz. 1028 01:17:19,552 --> 01:17:21,634 Mahrat sebastiao... 1029 01:17:21,637 --> 01:17:23,218 Pictures of garbage 1030 01:17:23,264 --> 01:17:25,425 and we will start this... 1031 01:17:25,558 --> 01:17:27,640 At ten thousand pounds. 1032 01:17:27,685 --> 01:17:29,801 10 thousand pound. 1033 01:17:30,271 --> 01:17:32,387 12 thousand pounds. 1034 01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:34,646 14 thousand pounds. 1035 01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:35,685 16 thousand pounds. 1036 01:17:35,734 --> 01:17:36,598 18 thousand pounds. 1037 01:17:36,610 --> 01:17:37,565 20 thousand pounds. 1038 01:17:37,611 --> 01:17:38,475 At the far back now. 1039 01:17:38,571 --> 01:17:40,277 20 thousand pounds. 1040 01:17:40,281 --> 01:17:41,281 20 thousand pounds 1041 01:17:41,448 --> 01:17:42,688 22 thousand pounds. 1042 01:17:42,741 --> 01:17:43,400 There is a new bit 1043 01:17:43,409 --> 01:17:44,489 25 thousand pounds. 1044 01:17:44,577 --> 01:17:45,657 25 thousand pounds. 1045 01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:46,616 Against you, Jenny. 1046 01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:47,742 A 25 mil. 1047 01:17:47,746 --> 01:17:48,746 28 thousand pounds. 1048 01:17:48,831 --> 01:17:50,071 A 28 mil. 1049 01:17:50,124 --> 01:17:51,409 It's against Diego now... 1050 01:17:51,417 --> 01:17:53,248 At 28 thousand pounds. 1051 01:17:53,252 --> 01:17:55,334 It is at the far back of the room... 1052 01:17:55,379 --> 01:17:57,711 At 28 thousand pounds. 1053 01:17:58,424 --> 01:18:00,460 Sold. 1054 01:18:09,393 --> 01:18:11,621 The most important thing is what you're going to do with this. 1055 01:18:11,645 --> 01:18:17,982 It was all worth it. Everything I did up until now was really worth it. 1056 01:18:19,445 --> 01:18:21,356 Why do you think you are here? 1057 01:18:24,575 --> 01:18:28,318 Because once a friend and I had a dream of creating an association. 1058 01:18:29,163 --> 01:18:30,448 We created the association. 1059 01:18:30,456 --> 01:18:34,324 It was a crazy dream. Nobody believed in us. 1060 01:18:35,419 --> 01:18:36,784 Not even my family. 1061 01:18:38,589 --> 01:18:40,125 Nobody believed in me. 1062 01:18:42,468 --> 01:18:44,049 This is only the beginning tiao. 1063 01:18:46,722 --> 01:18:48,337 This is only the beginning. 1064 01:18:53,562 --> 01:18:55,393 I am so happy. 1065 01:18:55,481 --> 01:18:56,481 Are you happy? 1066 01:18:56,690 --> 01:19:01,434 God was so good to me, so wonderful. 1067 01:19:01,487 --> 01:19:04,979 You're the strong one. You are doing everything. 1068 01:19:07,117 --> 01:19:08,117 Mom. 1069 01:19:10,537 --> 01:19:12,118 We sold it mom. 1070 01:19:13,749 --> 01:19:16,536 We sold it for us$50,000. 1071 01:19:18,462 --> 01:19:20,077 Us$50,000. 1072 01:19:21,674 --> 01:19:24,507 I feel like a pop star. 1073 01:19:27,388 --> 01:19:28,388 Full. 1074 01:19:30,307 --> 01:19:31,307 Yeah. 1075 01:20:50,471 --> 01:20:53,053 Now presenting Lenny kravitz. 1076 01:20:58,062 --> 01:21:00,053 I want to propose a toast to my boss. 1077 01:21:00,481 --> 01:21:01,766 - Thank you. - Thank you. 1078 01:21:03,650 --> 01:21:10,647 Careful. This woman is red hot. 1079 01:21:10,741 --> 01:21:12,106 Tell me what's changed for you. 1080 01:21:13,077 --> 01:21:14,692 I was married and now I am separated. 1081 01:21:16,121 --> 01:21:17,452 But isn't that bad? 1082 01:21:17,498 --> 01:21:19,159 Not at all. It's wonderful. 1083 01:21:19,458 --> 01:21:22,291 I started to see myself. 1084 01:21:22,461 --> 01:21:24,247 Your own beauty? 1085 01:21:24,254 --> 01:21:25,664 No as a person really. 1086 01:21:25,714 --> 01:21:28,501 Because before I was just like a little mule. 1087 01:21:29,510 --> 01:21:33,719 This job was great. It was really good and important to me. 1088 01:21:34,014 --> 01:21:35,504 I knew how much I made. 1089 01:21:36,100 --> 01:21:41,515 We would weigh the material every day. 1090 01:21:41,647 --> 01:21:46,437 We supposedly worked together, but my share was always less. 1091 01:21:46,485 --> 01:21:49,648 He thought I should be submissive. 1092 01:21:52,116 --> 01:21:53,731 But it doesn't work like that. 1093 01:21:54,326 --> 01:21:56,282 That was the biggest change in my life. 1094 01:21:56,453 --> 01:21:59,536 That's what this job brought to me. 1095 01:22:00,082 --> 01:22:01,288 The will to change. 1096 01:22:01,750 --> 01:22:05,163 So that's the story, this work brought me this realization. 1097 01:22:11,385 --> 01:22:17,255 What did you think of modern art before you went to the auction? 1098 01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:20,474 I used to think it was crap. 1099 01:22:24,189 --> 01:22:25,474 Why'd you think it was crap? 1100 01:22:25,482 --> 01:22:27,689 Because I think a lot of things aren't really art. 1101 01:22:27,776 --> 01:22:30,734 Why don't you think it's art? Because you don't get it? 1102 01:22:30,737 --> 01:22:34,150 Because I don't get it and it's totally meaningless. 1103 01:22:34,199 --> 01:22:36,319 But do you think you have to get it, for it to be art? 1104 01:22:37,077 --> 01:22:39,693 I think it has to communicate something at least. 1105 01:22:40,998 --> 01:22:44,536 After you told me the story about... 1106 01:22:46,503 --> 01:22:47,663 Jean-Michel. 1107 01:22:47,713 --> 01:22:48,748 Jean-Michel basquiat. 1108 01:22:48,797 --> 01:22:52,710 Yeah, I started liking his stuff a lot more. 1109 01:22:52,718 --> 01:22:57,007 I began to understand his kind of sinister style. 1110 01:22:58,724 --> 01:23:02,637 It's a bit childish, like monsters. 1111 01:23:02,686 --> 01:23:05,223 I started to understand it and I liked it. 1112 01:23:05,314 --> 01:23:10,434 But if you're saying you liked it better after you understood it... 1113 01:23:10,611 --> 01:23:14,604 Then maybe we just don't like things we don't understand. 1114 01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:19,279 Of course, you can dislike something because you haven't tried it. 1115 01:23:19,536 --> 01:23:22,027 For example, you were always trying to explain what you were doing... 1116 01:23:22,039 --> 01:23:23,245 But I never understood. 1117 01:23:23,999 --> 01:23:25,205 Until you saw it? 1118 01:23:25,250 --> 01:23:28,083 I only understood it when fabio brought me up here. 1119 01:23:28,629 --> 01:23:33,089 Then I got what you crazy people were up to. 1120 01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:34,755 Then I really got it. 1121 01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:37,217 The crazy people are the ones who buy it. 1122 01:23:37,221 --> 01:23:39,257 They're not crazy. It's beautiful. 1123 01:23:40,265 --> 01:23:42,096 I'd buy it. 1124 01:23:42,768 --> 01:23:44,633 I'll buy it someday. I'll buy my picture back. 1125 01:24:33,235 --> 01:24:35,442 - Bye betania. - Bye. 1126 01:24:40,701 --> 01:24:42,692 Hello. 1127 01:24:44,621 --> 01:24:46,657 You look like you're getting married. 1128 01:24:48,250 --> 01:24:49,490 Who would marry me? 1129 01:25:02,764 --> 01:25:03,764 That's it. 1130 01:25:04,558 --> 01:25:05,638 Watch the glass. 1131 01:25:06,059 --> 01:25:07,469 Oh my god. 1132 01:25:08,478 --> 01:25:12,062 Look, it's me. 1133 01:25:13,692 --> 01:25:15,023 So good. 1134 01:25:15,777 --> 01:25:17,313 I did the iron, remember? 1135 01:25:17,988 --> 01:25:19,694 I did this. 1136 01:25:19,740 --> 01:25:21,105 I did this. 1137 01:25:21,408 --> 01:25:22,488 Look it's zumbi. 1138 01:25:22,534 --> 01:25:24,274 It's so beautiful. 1139 01:25:24,453 --> 01:25:27,320 Suelen. It's so vibrant. 1140 01:25:27,331 --> 01:25:28,331 Look it's you. 1141 01:25:30,167 --> 01:25:33,125 Check out the profile. 1142 01:25:34,338 --> 01:25:35,338 It's beautiful. 1143 01:25:35,547 --> 01:25:37,128 Check out, auntie. 1144 01:25:37,132 --> 01:25:39,418 I did this. 1145 01:25:39,509 --> 01:25:41,716 - You made the pot. - I did this. 1146 01:25:50,354 --> 01:25:52,390 I was a picker at jardim gramacho. 1147 01:25:52,439 --> 01:25:54,805 I was picking garbage when they asked me to work with them. 1148 01:25:55,025 --> 01:25:57,767 They liked my look, my style. 1149 01:25:57,986 --> 01:26:00,978 At that point, I didn't even know what this was. 1150 01:26:01,031 --> 01:26:05,149 It's really worthwhile to work on behalf of the pickers... 1151 01:26:05,369 --> 01:26:08,361 To become recognized as an official sector... 1152 01:26:08,372 --> 01:26:09,532 Of the recyclable materials industry. 1153 01:26:09,539 --> 01:26:12,781 And it's also worthwhile becoming a work of art. 1154 01:26:12,793 --> 01:26:15,785 We support ourselves with this material. 1155 01:26:16,421 --> 01:26:18,537 And we managed to transform that material into art... 1156 01:26:18,799 --> 01:26:23,793 And into the opportunity to be in the museum of modern art. 1157 01:26:23,804 --> 01:26:25,544 I've never been to a museum. 1158 01:26:26,056 --> 01:26:29,093 I never dreamed there would be a picture of me in a museum. 1159 01:26:29,142 --> 01:26:31,758 Sometimes we see ourselves as so small... 1160 01:26:31,812 --> 01:26:35,430 But people out there see us as so big, so beautiful. 1161 01:26:36,817 --> 01:26:39,604 There she is. You look so fancy. 1162 01:26:39,653 --> 01:26:40,733 Are you happy? 1163 01:26:40,779 --> 01:26:42,189 Very happy. 1164 01:26:45,534 --> 01:26:49,118 Don't cry, sister. Now's the time to be happy. 1165 01:26:53,792 --> 01:26:55,748 I'd rather want everything and have nothing... 1166 01:26:55,752 --> 01:26:58,585 Than have everything and want nothing. 1167 01:26:59,214 --> 01:27:04,629 Because at least when you want something your life has a meaning, 1168 01:27:05,345 --> 01:27:07,631 it's worthwhile. 1169 01:27:08,306 --> 01:27:11,594 From the moment you think you have everything 1170 01:27:11,601 --> 01:27:16,015 you have to search for meaning in other things. 1171 01:27:16,356 --> 01:27:19,598 I spent half my life wanting everything and having nothing. 1172 01:27:20,026 --> 01:27:24,269 And now I have everything and I don't want anything. 1173 01:27:26,491 --> 01:27:29,358 These days I'm starting to see things in a simpler way. 1174 01:27:31,246 --> 01:27:36,240 I don't have as much material ambition as I used to. 1175 01:27:40,255 --> 01:27:43,839 When I was poor I only wanted material things. 1176 01:27:44,217 --> 01:27:45,377 I just wanted to have things. 1177 01:27:45,510 --> 01:27:49,844 I had to buy a lot of crap to get rid of that complex. 1178 01:27:58,732 --> 01:28:00,518 I knew that I could do the work. 1179 01:28:04,154 --> 01:28:08,318 Bt I did not count as being as involved... with the people that I was working with as I did. 1180 01:28:09,284 --> 01:28:11,275 It just was impossible not to. 1181 01:28:12,204 --> 01:28:14,035 I thought I could just go there... 1182 01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,116 And paint jardim gramacho... 1183 01:28:16,124 --> 01:28:18,331 Like cezanne went to paint... 1184 01:28:18,502 --> 01:28:20,083 Monte Saint-victoire. 1185 01:28:20,086 --> 01:28:23,453 You know be cool about it. 1186 01:28:23,715 --> 01:28:26,127 And try to just do my work... 1187 01:28:26,176 --> 01:28:28,258 And look at it as a representation. 1188 01:28:28,303 --> 01:28:29,303 It's not. 1189 01:28:30,514 --> 01:28:32,050 It's a lot more than that. 1190 01:28:32,057 --> 01:28:34,298 Because it has it's human side... 1191 01:28:34,559 --> 01:28:36,766 That a picture can not really translate. 1192 01:28:39,064 --> 01:28:40,064 It could be me. 1193 01:28:41,566 --> 01:28:44,057 I mean from the stories... 1194 01:28:44,069 --> 01:28:45,400 These people tell... 1195 01:28:45,570 --> 01:28:49,779 A lot of them they were low middle class people... 1196 01:28:51,743 --> 01:28:52,778 That for some unfortunate event... 1197 01:28:52,786 --> 01:28:56,278 They just ended up having to go there and live in the garbage. 1198 01:28:56,706 --> 01:28:59,243 I was born in a low... 1199 01:28:59,292 --> 01:29:01,078 Middle class house hold in Brazil. 1200 01:29:01,419 --> 01:29:03,705 If something had happened to my parents... 1201 01:29:04,506 --> 01:29:07,293 I could be led to a life like that. 1202 01:29:09,094 --> 01:29:11,676 If you can put yourself in their own shoes... 1203 01:29:11,763 --> 01:29:13,594 If your living life... 1204 01:29:13,598 --> 01:29:16,431 And figuring out what to do to just continue living... 1205 01:29:16,601 --> 01:29:17,601 It's very hard. 1206 01:29:17,644 --> 01:29:18,724 But on the other hand... 1207 01:29:18,728 --> 01:29:20,309 When you see the appetite for life... 1208 01:29:20,355 --> 01:29:21,470 These people have... 1209 01:29:22,190 --> 01:29:24,101 And the way they carry themselves... 1210 01:29:24,109 --> 01:29:25,645 It inspires you. 1211 01:29:41,668 --> 01:29:43,750 I start thinking about... 1212 01:29:43,753 --> 01:29:45,493 How to help people and all of a sudden... 1213 01:29:45,505 --> 01:29:47,336 I feel very arrogant. 1214 01:29:47,382 --> 01:29:49,168 Who am I to help anybody? 1215 01:29:49,175 --> 01:29:50,460 Because in the end... 1216 01:29:50,468 --> 01:29:52,754 I feel like I am being helped more than they are. 1217 01:29:56,099 --> 01:29:58,340 Even if everything went wrong... 1218 01:29:58,768 --> 01:30:00,474 You could still be like them. 1219 01:30:01,438 --> 01:30:02,348 And they're beautiful. 1220 01:30:02,397 --> 01:30:04,103 They're great people. 1221 01:30:07,319 --> 01:30:09,401 They just weren't very lucky... 1222 01:30:10,155 --> 01:30:11,645 But we're going to change that. 1223 01:30:14,743 --> 01:30:16,654 I can't believe it. 1224 01:30:18,413 --> 01:30:20,074 What's this, man? 1225 01:30:21,207 --> 01:30:25,416 Hang this on these humble walls, this work of art? 1226 01:30:27,088 --> 01:30:31,673 You can't even hang a picture right. 1227 01:30:34,137 --> 01:30:35,377 Check it out. 1228 01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:37,216 It's your dad. 1229 01:30:37,641 --> 01:30:38,255 That's it. 1230 01:30:38,266 --> 01:30:39,426 That's beautiful. 1231 01:30:46,066 --> 01:30:47,306 Right next to my mother-in-law. 1232 01:30:49,736 --> 01:30:53,604 Look who's it is. 1233 01:30:55,116 --> 01:30:56,447 Is it you? 1234 01:31:01,206 --> 01:31:02,241 I have to get a nail. 1235 01:31:13,468 --> 01:31:14,674 I'm shaking. 1236 01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:26,765 It's so beautiful. It's me, it's me. 1237 01:31:27,357 --> 01:31:28,357 I love it. 1238 01:31:32,612 --> 01:31:35,069 You have no idea what this means to me. 1239 01:31:41,204 --> 01:31:47,200 When I went to work there, I was too ashamed to tell anybody. 1240 01:31:47,293 --> 01:31:51,627 I tried to hide it from my family the best I could. 1241 01:31:51,715 --> 01:31:53,251 After I worked with vik muniz... 1242 01:31:53,258 --> 01:31:56,500 I went to everybody and told them I worked at the landfill. 1243 01:31:56,511 --> 01:32:00,379 It was one of life's consequences. 1244 01:32:01,474 --> 01:32:03,089 And I was no longer ashamed. 1245 01:32:03,476 --> 01:32:07,594 This image has traveled all over. To China, Japan. 1246 01:32:07,605 --> 01:32:11,314 I didn't go, but it did. I'm famous out there. 1247 01:32:11,443 --> 01:32:14,435 When I saw it being made, it was very big. 1248 01:32:14,487 --> 01:32:17,570 Now it got smaller. 1249 01:32:18,324 --> 01:32:21,657 In the studio it looked huge. 1250 01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:25,578 See if it's good. Here? Here? 1251 01:32:29,419 --> 01:32:30,659 Don't scratch my picture. 1252 01:32:30,754 --> 01:32:32,290 The back doesn't matter. 1253 01:32:36,176 --> 01:32:37,416 You did a good job vik. 1254 01:32:37,427 --> 01:32:39,292 Now you're famous in Santa Cruz. 1255 01:32:39,304 --> 01:32:40,760 They're talking about you here. 1256 01:32:42,432 --> 01:32:46,516 - Did you do that? - Yes, with everyone's help. 1257 01:32:48,188 --> 01:32:50,395 Remember that big pot I had? 1258 01:32:50,607 --> 01:32:52,814 That's the one they used. 1259 01:32:52,817 --> 01:32:56,355 You know how I became famous all over the world? 1260 01:32:56,404 --> 01:32:59,237 Inside the garbage. 1261 01:32:59,407 --> 01:33:03,491 I started there almost thirty years ago. 1262 01:33:03,620 --> 01:33:04,575 I like it there. 1263 01:33:04,621 --> 01:33:06,782 My life began there, thank god. 1264 01:33:06,790 --> 01:33:09,281 I'm famous worldwide because of that place. 1265 01:33:09,417 --> 01:33:11,032 That's where everything started for me. 1266 01:33:22,263 --> 01:33:25,471 Vik's retrospective show broke all attendance records in Brazil. 1267 01:33:25,475 --> 01:33:27,136 Over a million people went to see the show... 1268 01:33:27,143 --> 01:33:29,429 Making it second only in popularity to Picasso. 1269 01:33:30,772 --> 01:33:32,387 Vik raised over $250,000... 1270 01:33:32,398 --> 01:33:34,684 With more sales of prints from "pictures of garbage" portraits. 1271 01:33:34,692 --> 01:33:38,480 Thanks to these funds and tiao's efforts, acamig has bought a truck... 1272 01:33:38,488 --> 01:33:40,208 And equipment, and opened a learning center. 1273 01:33:41,491 --> 01:33:42,606 Acamig will be working... 1274 01:33:42,617 --> 01:33:45,734 To provide education and skills training... 1275 01:33:45,745 --> 01:33:47,610 To the catadores to help with this transition. 1276 01:33:48,039 --> 01:33:50,267 It has been announced that jardim gramacho will close in 2012. 1277 01:33:50,291 --> 01:33:51,497 Zumbi's dream has been realized. 1278 01:33:51,501 --> 01:33:53,583 A library has been inaugurate... 1279 01:33:53,586 --> 01:33:55,497 At the acamig office, with 15 computers. 1280 01:33:55,505 --> 01:33:57,791 Zumbi's new dream is to visit Africa... 1281 01:33:58,258 --> 01:33:59,623 To explore his roots. 1282 01:33:59,634 --> 01:34:02,171 Magna is single and working in a drugstore... 1283 01:34:02,178 --> 01:34:04,043 Where she enjoys regular working hours... 1284 01:34:04,055 --> 01:34:05,761 And time at home with her son. 1285 01:34:05,765 --> 01:34:07,426 She wants everyone to know... 1286 01:34:07,433 --> 01:34:09,424 That they are very happy. 1287 01:34:09,477 --> 01:34:14,016 Sister still lives in gramacho and set up... 1288 01:34:14,023 --> 01:34:17,481 Her own small cooking business with the proceeds from the project. 1289 01:34:17,485 --> 01:34:19,441 She has since returned to gramacho as she misses her colleagues. 1290 01:34:19,445 --> 01:34:21,777 Isis re-married, completed a secretarial course... 1291 01:34:21,781 --> 01:34:23,271 And is looking for a job. 1292 01:34:23,283 --> 01:34:26,241 She went and found her ex-husband and daughter, but they refused to see her. 1293 01:34:26,244 --> 01:34:29,407 She is never going back to jardim gramacho. 1294 01:34:29,414 --> 01:34:32,702 Suelen is 19 years old and had her third child, a boy. 1295 01:34:32,709 --> 01:34:36,201 She lives together with the father, who supports her... 1296 01:34:36,212 --> 01:34:39,045 To stay at home and take care of her children. 1297 01:34:50,602 --> 01:34:54,720 Walter died shortly after meeting vik, from cancer. 1298 01:34:55,732 --> 01:34:57,563 He kept working almost up until his death. 1299 01:34:57,567 --> 01:34:59,432 He is much missed and often quoted at jardim gramacho. 1300 01:34:59,444 --> 01:35:02,436 The catadores say he helped everyone make good decisions... 1301 01:35:02,447 --> 01:35:06,486 And remember him saying 99 is not 100. 1302 01:35:23,009 --> 01:35:28,379 He is President of the association of garbage pickers of jardim gramacho. 1303 01:35:28,723 --> 01:35:32,307 And his portrait was a big success at an auction in London. 1304 01:35:32,393 --> 01:35:33,473 Tiao Santos. 1305 01:35:47,367 --> 01:35:49,073 At what age did you start working? 1306 01:35:49,452 --> 01:35:50,532 Since I was 11. 1307 01:35:51,162 --> 01:35:54,529 - Since you were 11. At the landfill? - Yes, at the landfill. 1308 01:35:54,540 --> 01:35:56,268 - Can I just correct you on one point? - Of course. 1309 01:35:56,292 --> 01:35:58,749 We are not pickers of garbage, we are pickers of recyclable materials. 1310 01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:02,120 Garbage can't be reused, whereas recyclable materials can. 1311 01:36:11,182 --> 01:36:14,424 With tiao's leadership, acamig is now a leading part... 1312 01:36:14,435 --> 01:36:17,802 Of the national and international movement of recyclable materials pickers... 1313 01:36:17,814 --> 01:36:21,056 Which held their first meeting in Sao Paulo in October 2009. 1314 01:36:22,026 --> 01:36:25,564 A lot of people now believe in tiao and look to him as a leader. 1315 01:36:25,571 --> 01:36:33,194 Some dream that one day he could become president. 95249

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