Manufactured Landscapes (US Edition)
by Jennifer Baichwal
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Actor: Edward BurtynskyDirector: Jennifer Baichwal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
DVD Reviews of Manufactured Landscapes (US Edition)
DVD Review: Excellent Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I am shocked by a previous review claiming that this film portrayed something "beautiful". The images in this film were hideous and horrifying -- streets filled with military-style formations of uniformed sweatshop workers, industrial wastelands, throwaway cities, and exploited people wading in sludge to clean out old oil tankers -- jobs and living conditions that most Americans sitting on their couch and watching this film don't allow themselves to consider ... and I am pretty certain that was what the person who filmed it intended to show.
This film does a great job showing the human and ecological price paid for gadgets and conveniences which seem to magically reappear on store shelves. If you've ever wondered where this stuff comes from ("Made in China") and how it affects people ... then you might do well by watching this.
But unless you are psychotic/sadistic, you will see nothing "beautiful" here -- just sickening images of the waste, misery, and exploitation that techno-industrial civilization is founded upon.
Highly recommended.
DVD Review: Manufactured Landscapes-Balanced movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great film. I like how Burtynsky takes the view of trying to portray these landscapes as neither positive or negative. He is letting the viewer decide. Overall, these landscapes that are becoming the norm of our society are disturbing and sad. At the end, I wanted to never buy anything new ever again (electronices, computers, clothes)!! Maybe I'll start shopping at the 2nd hand thrift store more often now....DVD Review: a great addition to any eco-doc collector. stunning!
Summary: 5 Stars
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1X2XR9JJS58NJ DVD Review: the other side of (post-industrial) currency
Summary: 5 Stars
The magnifying glass of Burtynsky's camera is set in many a motion, from micro to macro as if zooming in/out images and concepts. Its primary object is Chinese development as revealed by several instances of industrialization--production, supplies, habitat.
Repetition, mosaic, scale are few of the immediate thoughts one comes up with upon watching this documentary. Then one starts to ponder whether growth at this scale/speed can be managed OR we fast forward to fulfill our destiny as a species.
If not the documentary itself then its commented version and the other supplements on the disc could mark an(other) entry point to a debate about public consciousness round emerging issues of unprecedented scale. Running it as a public service on the great boulevards of the western world could also make one aware of the other side of (post-industrial) currency.
DVD Review: "Manufactured Landscapes" Creates a Visual and Spiritual Meditation on Our Impact on the Earth
Summary: 5 Stars
I was deeply moved by Jennifer Baichwal's documentary on Edward Burtynsky's photography in China -- then was surprised to find the range of online reviews.
First, to think of this film as "about China" misses the point that Burtynsky and Baichwal make throughout the documentary about the close global interrelationships that are reshaping vast swaths of the Earth's surface. Yes, we visit enormous centers of e-recycling in which computer components are torn apart pretty much by hand in dangerous, depressing regions of China -- but the film makes the point that the e-waste is ours as Americans. Yes, we see the oil and energy industry disrupting the Chinese landscape like gargantuan hammers and swords -- but the film makes the point that these efforts are shaped by the worldwide thirst for oil and energy in the current era of manufacturing.
The film's point is that we are fundamentally interrelated. Also, its "slow" style is intended as meditative. I agree with the strategy. This film does not preach -- just as Burtynsky's photographs are noted for their refusal to overtly preach at us. Both filmmaker and photographer are inviting us to ponder these images -- sometimes stunningly beautiful and sometimes terrifying. Sometimes we find that the truth is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Sometimes the images seem as distant as Mars -- and sometimes they seem so close to home that they are stunning, for example, when we suddenly notice that a mountain of gray waste includes parts of a common household steam iron.
I come to this film as a journalist who has spent decades covering the impact of faith and spirituality on contemporary life. If you're familiar with films like "Into Great Silence," about monastic life, or even "The Undertaking," a PBS documentary on poet-essayist (and undertaker) Thomas Lynch -- then you know that this is a very creative era in which filmmakers are experimenting with new spiritual vocabularies.
I would recommend this film especially for discussion groups. There's a whole lot you'll be eager to discuss in this film -- especially if your group is able to watch some of the extras on the DVD as well.
Description of Manufactured Landscapes (US Edition)
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.
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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