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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.
Director:
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Jennifer Baichwal
Cast:
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Edward Burtynsky

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Rated:
Unrated
Runtime:
90 min
Release date:
9 Sep 2006
Country:
CA
Languages:
English, Chinese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$240,239
Awards:
4 wins & 7 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The movie works best traveling from the eye straight to the conscience.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
27 Jul 2007
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,
27 Jul 2007
rotten:
Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jul 2007
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,
9 Aug 2007
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,
19 Oct 2007
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