Documentary Films: Manufactured Landscapes and Shfiting Nature
Location
Multimedia Hall, Bunch Library
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
18-9-2009 7:30 PM
Description
Manufactured Landscapes works triple-time as a documentary portrait, a tone poem, and a work of protest. Director Jennifer Baichwal (The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia). 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 largescale 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.
Recommended Citation
Belmont University, "Documentary Films: Manufactured Landscapes and Shfiting Nature" (2009). Humanities Symposium. 23.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2009/2009/23
Documentary Films: Manufactured Landscapes and Shfiting Nature
Multimedia Hall, Bunch Library
Manufactured Landscapes works triple-time as a documentary portrait, a tone poem, and a work of protest. Director Jennifer Baichwal (The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia). 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 largescale 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.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Culture & Arts