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Ed Burtynsky’s ‘Manufactured Landscapes’
Take a cinematic tour of China via the trailer for the new documentary, “Manufactured Landscapes,” from Zeitgest Films.
Photo via Zeitgeist Films
“It looks like a bombed out landscape, but it isn’t; it is an intentional one,” photographer Edward Burtynsky says.
Burtynsky, famous for his large-scale photographs, takes viewers into the world of China’s industrial wastelands, or “manufactured landscapes,” including rock quarries, recycling yards and factories, revealing how we impact our natural environmnent.
Striking in its simplicity, the film’s trailer shows a montage of industrial scenes, including hoards of factory workers and mountains of discarded e-waste.
“If I said, ‘this is a terrible thing we’re doing to the planet,’ then people will either agree or disagree. By not saying what you should see, that may allow them to see their world a little differently,” Burtynsky says.
Drawing comparisons to other documentaries such as “An Inconvenient Truth,” Burtynsky’s film aims to challenge us to confront and question our relationship with nature.
AWARDS
Best Documentary Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association
Best Canadian Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association
Best Canadian Feature – Toronto Film Festival
Best Documentary – Genie Awards
Watch Burtynsky speak about “The Industrial World”:
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