Chris Teerink

THE WASTE LAND is a cinematic universe of photos, conversations and sounds. A journey to the mysterious core of T.S. Eliot's poem from a world steeped in confusion.

THE WASTE LAND delves deep into the complex tapestry of the famous poem by T.S. Eliot. Written in a time of crises, THE WASTE LAND resonates with the challenges of our own world. In the film, the layered voices of writers, scholars and philosophers such as Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer, Guy Standing, Vandana Shiva and Richard Sennett add depth to Eliot's poetry and sound a call for reflexion and action in a dialogue between poetry and contemporary reality.