Manufactured Landscapes
Year: 2006
Country:
CANADA
Run Time:
86 minutes
As humanity’s industrial technology grows exponentially, we are constantly disrupting natural landscapes in pursuit of progress. The extent to which we have altered the Earth is astounding. But the harsh reality can be difficult to grasp without images, especially now that we are so often removed from the origins of our most prominent resources. Using a wide-lens approach, filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal teams up with world-renowned photographer, Edward Burtynsky, to capture heavily industrialized landscapes, and the people who inhabit them, from around the world. From shipyards in Bangladesh, to the rapidly growing neighborhoods of Shanghai, to small towns in China that have been completely contaminated by electronic waste, Baichwal and Burtynsky provoke new ways of thinking with the powerful images they present. As the first in Jennifer Baichwal’s trilogy of documentaries that explore humanity’s relationship with our planet, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the big zoom-out our society needs to get some perspective. —G.S.
CIFF43 Screenings
Friday, March 29, 2019 at 5:00 PM
Sidebar
Film Is Art
Competition
Reel Women Direct Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman
Related Daily Postings
Director's Films Observe without Judging
Director
Jennifer Baichwal
Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for over 20 years. Her films have won multiple awards including an International Emmy, three Gemini Awards, and Best Cultural and Best Independent Canadian Documentary at HotDocs. Baichwal is a member of the Ryerson University School of Image Arts Advisory Council and a Director on the Board of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Filmography
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998), The Holier It Gets (1999), The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2002), Manufactured Landscapes (2006) – CIFF31, Act of God (2009), Payback (2012), Watermark (2013) – CIFF43, ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH (2018) – CIFF43
Producers
Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron, Jennifer Baichwal
Cinematography
Peter Mettler
Editing
Roland Schlimme
Zeitgeist Films
http://zeitgeistfilms.com
Donate
Your donation helps fulfill our mission to promote artistically and culturally significant film arts through education and exhibition.
Film Festival
Films
CIFF Streams
Plan Your Day
Events
CIFF Media
Archive
Store
Support Us
FAQs
- General
- Membership & Passes
- Tickets & Vouchers
- CIFF46 Program
- CIFF46 @ PSQ
- CIFF46 Streams
- How to Stream
- Streams Glossary
- Call for Entries
Press Room
About
Policies
Financials
Admin Office
Cleveland International Film Festival
2510 Market Avenue
Cleveland OH 44113-3434
(216) 623-3456 | EMAIL
©CIFF, 2024
Site Design + Development 
