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With shanghais urban renewal as its subject, the film allows us to meditate on the human impact on our planet without falling back on simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions. Film summary manufactured landscapes is a visually mesmerizing documentary that is part artist portrait, part social documentary. Jun 20, 2007 directed by jennifer baichwal and sensitively shot in 16millimeter film by peter mettler, manufactured landscapes which is also the name of a 2003 book of mr. Its a film that balances environment with commercialism and has a lot of political and moral questions raised through the film and the pictures captured by the lens of burtynsky. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our. Manufactured landscapes widescreen, dolby, ac3 on tcm shop. Burtynsky makes largescale photographs of manufactured landscapes quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. In light of the covid19 pandemic, we will be moving national canadian film day 2020 to an online experience, supported by streaming and broadcast programming. Manufactured landscapes is the striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist edward burtynsky internationally acclaimed for his large scale photographs of manufactured landscapes quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilizations materials and debris. Watch manufactured landscapes 2007 full movie free streaming. Sundance film festival sweden 26 january 2007 goteborg international film festival usa 18 february 2007 portland international film festival serbia 28 february 2007 belgrade film festival greece 16 march 2007 thessaloniki documentary festival usa 22 march 2007 cleveland international film festival hong kong 7 april 2007. In china, workers gather outside the factory, exhorted by their team leader to produce more and make fewer errors. And with manufactured landscapes you can just tell that somethings up from the first shot. Internationally acclaimed for his largescale photographs of manufactured landscapesquarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and damsburtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilizations materials and debris.
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There is a terrible beauty about manufactured landscapes, a documentary by jennifer baichwal on the work of her fellow. Manufactured landscapes is an unconventional film told through the spectacular, largescale photos by edward burtynsky as he visits manufactured landscapes quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams in china and beyond. This featurelength documentary focuses on internationally renowned canadian artist edward burtynsky, who has spent the last three decades creating largescale photographs of landscapes transformed by industry. Accepting his 2005 ted prize, photographer edward burtynsky makes a wish. Internationally acclaimed for his largescale photographs of manufactured landscapesquarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and damsburtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilizations materials and debris. Manufactured landscapes is the equivalent of looking through a photo portfolio, but instead of being able to flip to the next page when youre done analyzing a photo and have extracted all that. We partner with public libraries and universities to bring you an adfree experience that can be enjoyed on your tv, mobile. What the film does well is to make us part of the problem. Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we announce a whole variety of exciting ways to participate remotely on april 22.
Fancy watching manufactured landscapes on your tv or mobile device at home. Manufactured landscapes is the striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist edward burtynsky. Jan 19, 2007 manufactured landscapes canada production. Rent manufactured landscapes 2006 starring edward burtynsky on dvd and bluray. Baichwal achieves in shot duration what burtynsky does in space and scale. The film focuses on the work of canadian photographer edward burtynsky whose has created a new form of landscape photography, one that explores the intricate link between industry and nature, combining. Manufactured landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist edward burtynsky. Film and photography are both visual media, but manufactured landscapes extends the element of time to accentuate the gravity of burtynskys work.
Rent manufactured landscapes 2006 on dvd and bluray dvd. So what is being represented in the still and moving images of this film. Photographer edward burtynsky takes very large photos, often of numerous subjects that are individually small or seemingly insignificant on their own, but impactful when together. The film follows internationally acclaimed photographer edward burtynsky whose largescale photographs of manufactured landscapes quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams create stunningly beautiful art from civilization s materials and debris. Oftentimes one can tell whether a film is really worth watching by the time the first shot and the first cut are done. Today is boring films, in conjunction with bfi, had a special prescreening of the documentary film manufactured landscapes, in london 2008. A zeitgeist films release of a mercury films and foundry films coproduction with the national film board of canada in.
This is a clip of the audiences reactions and feedback of the film source. A zeitgeist films release of a mercury films and foundry films coproduction with the national film board of canada in association with tv ontario. Photographer edward burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. After all we demand the lowest prices in everything we buy and that probably. Read about the manufactured landscapes dvd and browse other dvd movies.
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