Photographer Edward Burtynsky has won international accolades for his large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes'—sites of industrial waste and ruin. In an ethically ambivalent fashion, his work seeks to find beauty in quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams, sites of human intervention, the debris of so-called industrial progress. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal accompanies Burtynsky on a trip to China to document not only his artistic process, but to expand his meditations on humanity's impact on the planet beyond the frame.
Beginning in a virtuoso tracking shot through an endless factory floor, and delving into the vicissitudes of industrialization's mutual, albeit asymmetric, exploitation of low-wage laborers and natural resources, Manufactured Landscapes paints a nuanced picture of the ecological toll of the way we live now.
Directed by Guido Santi & Tina Mascara • 2014 • France
The tale of Nicholas Vreeland’s transformation from Manhattanite to devout Buddhist.
Vanessa Gould • USA • 2017
How to fit a life into 1,000 words? The obituary writers at the New York Times race against the clock to cull details, weaving decades of personal and professional history into a compelling digest of singular existence. Theoretically bleak work is revealed as life-af...
Talal Derki • 2017 • Germany-Syria • A father trains his sons to join the global jihad.
Aged twelve and thirteen respectively, Ayman and Osama live with their father in Idlb province, Syria. Their father, an avowed al-Nusra fighter, is training them to join the global jihad. Feigning fundamenta...
