Manufactured Landscapes

Baichwal, Jennifer, (film director.). Starr, Peter, (film producer.). Flahive, Gerry, (film producer.). Pencier, Nick de, (film producer.). Iron, Daniel, (film producer.). Baichwal, Jennifer, (film producer.). Basmajian, Silva, (film producer.). Foundry Films Inc. (Toronto), (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.). Mercury Films Inc. (Toronto), (film producer.).

Summary: For almost three decades, internationally renowned Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky has been creating large scale photographs of landscapes transformed by industry: quarries, scrap heaps, factories, recycling yards, dams. Manufactured Landscapes follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country capturing the evidence and effects of China's massive industrial revolution. Rarely witnessed sites such as the Three Gorges Dam (50% larger than any other dam in the world), the interior of a factory which produces 20 million irons a year, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera. Shot in sumptuous super 16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, meditating on human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, the film shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (86 min., 28 sec.) : sound
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2015.
Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:	OTT. Agency - English program:.Ontario Centre. Agency:.A co-production of Mercury Films Inc., Foundry Films Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada produced in association with TVOntario and the Musagetes Foundation.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Available to subscribers only.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Jennifer Baichwal ; director of photography, Peter Mettler ; editor, Roland Schlimme ; producer, Peter Starr, Gerry Flahive, Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron, Jennifer Baichwal ; executive producer, Silva Basmajian ; location sound recordist, Sanjay Mehta ; cinematography, Noah Weinzweig, Nick de Pencier ; supervising sound editor, David Rose ; original music composer, Dan Driscoll ; re-recording mixer, Lou Solakofski, David Rose ; foley artist, Steve Hammond.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 2006.
Target Audience Note:	15-17.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Awards Note:	Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film - with a cash prize of $30,000, 2006 Award for Best Canadian Documentary, 2006 Best Canadian Documentary, 2006 Best Documentary, 2007 DDC Award - Category: International Competition - with a cash parize of 5,000Euros, 2007
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-07-01).