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Manufactured Landscapes
Manufactured Landscapes - a feature documentary by Jennifer Baichwal
(Uploaded for post at urbancartography.com)
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes' -- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. 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 ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky's photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.
2006, Canada, 90 mins.
Length: 122
Rating: 4.80 (44 ratings)
Tags: ManufacturedLandscapes JenniferBaichwal EdwardBurtynsky
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Consumerism
Our culture's relation to the animate Earth can in no way be considered a reciprocal or balanced one: with thousands of acres of nonregenerating forest disappearing every hour, and hundreds of our fellow species becoming extinct each month as a result of our civilization's excesses, we can hardly be surprised by the amount of epidemic illness in our culture, from increasingly severe immune dysfunctions and cancers, to widespread psychological distress, depression, and ever-more-frequent suicides, to the growing number of murders committed for no apparent reason by otherwise coherent individuals.
From an animistic perspective, the clearest source of all this distress, both physical and psychological, lies in the violence uselessly perpetrated by our civilization on the ecology of the planet; only by alleviating the latter will we be able to heal the former. This may sound at first like a simple statement of faith, yet it makes eminent and obvious sense as soon as we acknowledge our thorough dependence upon the countless other organisms with whom we have evolved. Caught up in a mass of abstractions, our attention hypnotized by a host of human-made technologies that only reflect us back upon ourselves, it is all too easy for us to forget our carnal inherence in a more-than-human matrix of sensations and sensibilities. Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate Earth; our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes, as our ears are attuned by their very structure to the howling of wolves and the honking of geese. To shut ourselves off from these other voices, to continue by our life-styles to condemn these other sensibilities to the oblivion of extinction, is to rob our own senses of their integrity, and to rob our minds of their coherence. We are human only in contact and conviviality with what is not human. Only in reciprocity with what is Other do we begin to heal ourselves. - David Abram
http://www.amazon.com/Spell-Sensuous-Perception-Language-More-Than-Human/dp/0679776397/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203911102&sr=8-1
*Video:
Manufactured Landscapes - Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0832903/
*Photos:
1) Chris Jordan http://www.chrisjordan.com/
2) Edward Burtynsky http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
*Audio:
1) The Power of Nightmares
2004 BBC series on how politicians now promise to protect people from imaginary nightmares
Part 1:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=881321004838285177
Part 2:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4602171665328041876
Part 3:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2081592330319789254
2) Life After People: Trash
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1369783100/bclid1369766588/bctid 1357351955
3) Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iEMXaTktUfA
*Music:
VNV Nation - As it Fades
http://www.vnvnation.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Judgement-VNV-Nation/dp/B000NQR860
Length: 328
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: China USA New York democracy culture pop litter pollution dump waste recycle
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Manufactured Landscapes -- Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer who takes pictures of landscapes. But not trees, and lakes. He takes pictures of industrial sites and factories.
His work was featured in an amazing documentary called 'Manufactured Landscapes.' It won best Canadian feature film at the Toronto international film fest.
Length: 253
Rating: 4.60 (417 ratings)
Tags: Manufactured Landscapes Edward Burtynsky Environment Hour George Stroumboulopoulos
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Edward Burtynsky: TED Prize wish: Share the story of Earth's
http://www.ted.com Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the world -- help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability. Burtynsky presents a riveting slideshow of his photographs, which show vividly how industrial development is altering the Earth's natural landscape. From mountains of tires to rivers of bright orange waste from a nickel mine, his images are simultaneously beautiful and horrifying.
Length: 2111
Rating: 4.70 (53 ratings)
Tags: Edward Burtynsky ted TEDPrize Photography art design culture environment pollution social change Landscapes
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Edward Burtynsky on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
http://www.cbc.ca/thehour
Edward Burtynsky grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario where the GM plant played a big part of his early life. Ed found his calling young. His auto worker dad picked up some used equipment and set him up with a basement darkroom when he was 11. Within a year, young Edward was selling his shots for 75 cents a pop to his neighbours and using the proceeds to buy more film. Today, Burtynsky's work is instantly recognizable. He works big. The prints are of epic proportions - and so are the projects he tackles. Dams, quarries, mines, freeways and factories - no one captures the awesome - and awful - ambition of human industry quite like him. Burtynsky's work was also the subject of the award-winning 2007 documentary, "Manufactured Landscapes" and this year he's being recognized with an "Eco-Hero" award from the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival.
Length: 661
Rating: 5.00 (20 ratings)
Tags: Edward Burtynsky on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos Manufactured Landscapes
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Edward Burtynsky, Talk, Three Gorges Dam
A brief talk from his presentation on "Manufactured Landscapes".
Length: 206
Rating: 4.10 (7 ratings)
Tags: Edward Burtynsky Three Gorges Dam
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Length: 254
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
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The BUZZ @ SJMA - Edward Burtynsky
For this episode of The BUZZ we spoke with artist/photographer Edward Burtynsky by phone from his studio in Toronto. Burtynsky speaks about his style and technique, in addition to discussing his photograph, Oil Fields 19a and 19b, Belridge, CA in the San Jose Museum of Art permanent collection.
Artist of the Week is now titled The BUZZ @ SJMA. Download this episode along with the previous AOTW episodes for Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Ricard Misrach, Amy Kaufman and Jim Campbell during our current Permanent Collection exhibit (7/28/07-3/23/08) to enhance your visit.
The BUZZ @ SJMA is our ongoing series featuring artists from our Permanent Collection. This insider commentary features artists, gallerists, curators and friends to give you a glimpse into each artists creative process. You can subscribe on the iTunes Store or on YouTube at www.youtube.com/sanjosemuseumofart.
Enjoy!
Length: 249
Rating: 4.00 (4 ratings)
Tags: san jose museum art buzz edward burtynsky artist of the week
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