Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new 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 civilization’s materials and debris.
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Manufactured Landscapes showed us the detritus of the west being picked apart by Asian workers, then showed different Asian workers assembling new junk for the west to use up.
A scene showcasing the assembly-line tactics at a Chinese factory seems to have been lifted (stylistically and thematically) from Jennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes.
That makes me all the more receptive to this extraordinary documentary about water, but I've admired the special vision of the filmmakers ever since I saw their landmark "Manufactured Landscapes" almost a decade ago.
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