Manufactured Landscapes - a feature documentary by Jennifer Baichwal
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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of r...
Manufactured Landscapes - a feature documentary by Jennifer Baichwal
(Uploaded for post at urbancartography.com)
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes' -- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization's materials and debris, but in a way people describe as "stunning" or "beautiful," and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky's photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.
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That's right. But even if we'd give a shit, would it change our live? I don't think so. 'Cause you can't control where from your things are. I mean, almost all companys produce their things in coubntries like China, Korea and so in. It's much cheaper for them and for us. So all in all we can't change anything.
Volgin It may appear to be a hopeless cause, but we CAN CHANGE. The process may take a long time; anywhere from a 1 year to a couple decades, but it is possible. Just study your history and you'll know that there is always hope. So stop being so pessimistic. If you still don't believe, then check out how much of an impact The Cove has made and continues to make.
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It may appear to be a hopeless cause, but we CAN CHANGE. The process may take a long time; anywhere from a 1 year to a couple decades, but it is possible. Just study your history and you'll know that there is always hope. So stop being so pessimistic. If you still don't believe, then check out how much of an impact The Cove has made and continues to make.