* Film Screening, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES: A Film by Jennifer Baichwal (at Fruitlands Museum)

Film Screening, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES: A Film by Jennifer Baichwal

Wed, 05/27/2015 - 7:00pm
Cost... $5 recommended donation
 
Manufactured Landscapes is a documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky and his large-scale photographs of quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams. Following Burtynsky to China, the 90-minute film chronicles his work capturing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution in photos. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, factory floors, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens. Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative of Burtynsky's photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. He photographs civilization's materials and debris, but in a way people describe as "stunning" or "beautiful," and so raises all kinds of questions about
 
http://www.fruitlands.org/film2