Fresh
What the film does well is to make us part of the problem: After all we demand the lowest prices in everything we buy and that probably means it was made in China.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Manufactured Landscapes
Beauty transformed.
2006 · 1h 30m · Unrated
Documentary
Directed by
Jennifer Baichwal
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Manufactured Landscapes
Overview
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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84%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Canadian fine art photographer Edward Burtynsky shoots the recycling dumps, superfactories, vast quarries and shipyards, capturing visual beauty in the ecological devastation.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Burtynsky calls for "a whole new way of thinking" about the world's economy and ecology, though he never says what's wrong with the old way.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The movie works best traveling from the eye straight to the conscience.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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