Underplayed Gems

Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

Manufactured Landscapes poster
Directed by
Jennifer Baichwal
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 58 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A documentary following photographer Edward Burtynsky as he captures large scale industrial sites around the world. It shows the impact of human industry on the landscape through his striking images.

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What happens

Manufactured Landscapes is a 2006 Canadian documentary film about the industrial landscape photography of Edward Burtynsky. It was directed by Jennifer Baichwal and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It was the first of three documentary collaborations between Baichwal and Burtynsky, followed by Watermark in 2013 and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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