Manufactured Landscapes (2006) on Netflix
NR20061h 26mDocumentary
Edward Burtynsky photographs mines, factories, quarries, dams and recycling yards, landscapes that large-scale human activity has altered. He finds his most extreme subjects in China.
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Plot summary
Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian photographer, holds that the landscapes people make define who we are. In quarries, mines, factories and recycling yards he finds an order and a symmetry he calls beautiful, whatever reasons produced them and whatever harm they leave behind. China supplies his most extreme subjects. At one end of the size scale stands shipbuilding; at the other, electronics assembly, where rows of laborers repeat a single small task with great precision. In villages where recycling electronic waste is the chief industry, enormous heaps of refuse sit beside the tiny components workers of every age salvage. Cities are the most aggregate of these landscapes, and he photographs the recent development of Shanghai. The vastest subject is the Three Gorges Dam, where villages are being dismantled before the water rises.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
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- Manufactured Landscapes was the first of what became three documentary collaborations between director Jennifer Baichwal and photographer Edward Burtynsky, followed years later by Watermark in 2013 and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch in 2018.
