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Manufactured Landscapes (US Edition) (2007)

Edward Burtynsky , Jennifer Baichwal  |  Unrated |  DVD
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  • Actors: Edward Burtynsky
  • Directors: Jennifer Baichwal
  • Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Zeitgeist Films
  • DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000R2GDOS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,770 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Manufactured Landscapes (US Edition)" on IMDb

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Manufactured Landscapes works triple-time as a documentary portrait, a tone poem, and a work of protest. The title comes from Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's 2003 book of the same name. His large-scale images depict the ways industrialization has transformed the environment. Locations include quarries, slag heaps, and dumping grounds. Director Jennifer Baichwal (The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia) introduces photographs focusing on China and Bangladesh, and then presents Burtynsky in the process of creating them. He adds a few words here and there, but Baichwal mostly lets the people behind his prints--and the devastation that surrounds them--do the talking. Of the sites they visit, China's monumental Three Gorges Dam is the most impressive... and depressing. At the same time the construction has created much-needed jobs, the world's largest engineering project has also displaced 13 cities of over 1.3 million people. To paraphrase Burtynsky, Baichwal's film "searches for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion." With its ominous soundtrack and stately pace--cinematographer Peter Mettler's opening pan through a vast manufacturing plant lasts eight minutes--Manufactured Landscapes is about as far from conventional as a non-fiction film can get. Like Koyanisqaatsi, Rivers and Tides, and Darwin's Nightmare, Baichwal leaves the charts and graphs behind to make one irrefutable point: We're in trouble. Extra features, like deleted scenes (with commentary by Baichwal) and an extensive slide gallery (with commentary by Burtynsky) add welcome context. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening hits as AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and RIVERS AND TIDES, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.

The film follows Internationally acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky whose large-scale photographs of manufactured landscapes quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams create stunningly beautiful art from civilization s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country s massive industrial revolution. Burtynsky s photographs allow us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.

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I didn't know what to expect after the opening 8-minute tracking shot spanned a Chinese factory's considerable length. "Manufactured Landscapes" is about the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, but this film is unlike any other I've seen on the subject of an artist and his work. Burtynsky has made a name -and many beautiful photographs- in "industrial landscapes". Struck by the ways in which modern humanity has transformed Earth's landscape, he seeks out "the largest industrial incursions" he can find. His photographs are fascinating and surprisingly beautiful representations of the heart of modernization and globalization.

Director Jennifer Baichwal accompanied Burtynsky on several trips to Asia, observing the artist at work and allowing a movie camera to see the industrial landscape as he does. This gives the photographs context that they don't normally have, and Burtynsky takes the opportunity to comment in a spare narration. Baichwal wisely subscribes to the same philosophy as Burtynsky in never interpreting or demystifying the photos. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many of Burtynsky's photographs are presented in the film and amazed at how well the movie footage supports and directs the viewer into them.

After photographing extraction industries for 10 years, Burtynsky turned his attention to China, where all those materials coalesce and are turned into products we consume. We go with him as he documents the rapidly changing landscapes at a factory, a village that recycles "e-waste", a shipyard, coal mine, the incredible Three Gorges Dam, and China's fastest-growing city, Shanghai. A short trip to a shipwrecking beach in Bangladesh is particularly astonishing. "Manufactured Landscapes" showed me things I had never seen before. And it is content just to show them without judgment.

The DVD (Zeitgeist 2007): Bonus features include 5 additional scenes, a theatrical trailer, and 3 featurettes. "Discussion with the Director and Edward Burtynsky" (19 min) is very worthwhile. Richard Goddard interviews Baichwal and Burtynsky about questions of authorship, perspective, what the film brings to the photos, and touches on the controversial aspects of the Burtynsky's photos. "Al Gore at the Nashville Film Festival" (9 min) records the former Vice President's speech as he presents Baichwal with an award. "Mini-Interview with the Cinematographer/Collaborator" (5 min) talks with Peter Mettler about working with both a photographer and a director. Subtitles are available for the film in English SDH.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Beauty of Waste July 28, 2007
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Jennifer Baichwal's documentary is a companion to renowned artist Edward Burtynsky's large-scale photographs depicting man's violent alteration of natural environments. Burtynsky achieved notoriety when he documented mine tailings, rail cuts, quarries and oil refineries, mostly located in North America. Baichwal shows Burtynsky at a lecture and exhibition of this material then travels to Asia with him to document the process of creating art based on China's industrial revolution. Manufactured Landscapes opens with an amazing tracking shot from the sidelines of a factory so enormous that the shot lasts eight minutes. There are stunning views of recycling yards and mountains of electronic refuse. Manufactured Landscapes takes us to the site of the Three Gorges Dam, 50% bigger than any previous such project, and to the ruins of the eleven cities that had to be demolished to make its construction possible. In Bangladesh, we witness an area that's become the final resting place for old oil tankers, which are being scrubbed clean of oil by teenagers. The central theme of Manufactured Landscapes is that the things we've come to regard as indicative of progress and human advancement have created a huge dependence on the extraction of natural resources that undermines the health of our planet and consequently our own. Beinchwal's documentary doesn't need to lecture because the visual evidence is so compelling and, ironically, so beautiful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Stark realism- epic photography- a real message for all
Very insightful, well directed and phtotgraphed documentary highlights some of the positives and negatives of the our "progressive" society-and the price that Mother... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bourne415
5.0 out of 5 stars love it
Burtynsky does an excellent job of bringing you a whole new look at our world today.

The images are beyond the imagination and I love the fact that he narrated the video... Read more
Published 1 month ago by photo_tina
3.0 out of 5 stars China Development
Seems to be more of a propaganda film. I was looking for more of a film on buildings and manufacturing. I know China rashes their country but it's their problem not mine.
Published 2 months ago by James, JingMu
5.0 out of 5 stars Watch if you dare.
Educate yourself and watch this. Sometimes I felt that the filmmaker kept his camera on a scene a little too long, but, know what? We deserve it.
Published 3 months ago by Carol G. Nix
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning
This documentary was beautiful in every way. As someone who lives in China, I am very happy to see the care that was taken to accurately portray life here.
Published 3 months ago by Jerome Cole
4.0 out of 5 stars A suggestion to whoever views this film
After reading the thoughtful reviews, the only thing I would like to add is to whoever views this fine film should take an extra few minutes and watch the "extra features". Read more
Published 12 months ago by Yaduck
3.0 out of 5 stars Unconventional documentary film approach, borrow over buy
I had heard tremendous praise for Manufactured Landscapes, but was underwhelmed by my first viewing. Read more
Published 12 months ago by clayton
5.0 out of 5 stars Making Visible the Sublime
"Manufactured Landscapes" is a magnificent and frightening movie, directed by Jennifer Baichwal (2006), documenting the work of photographer and artist Edward Burtynsky. Read more
Published 12 months ago by B:D
1.0 out of 5 stars CRUSHINGLY BORING
BORING BEYOND BELIEF. I couldn't even give this DVD away to other photography teachers -- they kept giving it back. If I can find an insomniac, this will make an effective gift. Read more
Published 13 months ago by bd1132
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good documentary, with amazing extras on the DVD
Anything that exposes photographer Edward Burtynsky's socially important and
beautiful work to more people is worthwhile. Read more
Published 20 months ago by K. Gordon
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