Eight minutes. That's how long it takes director Jennifer Baichwal's swift-moving camera to track from one end of the 480-meter-long Cankun factory floor to the other in "Manufactured Landscapes'" ...

Initially, Jennifer Baichwal‘s “Manufactured Landscapes” recalls last year’s “Our Daily Bread.” A clinical crawl through a gargantuan Chinese factory – with its endless, evenly spaced stations of ...

The Exhibit Manufactured Landscapes consists of several large galleries filled with Edward Burtynsky`s beautiful, large-format, color photographs of railcuts, mines and tailings, quarries, oil fields ...

The spectacle of workers reduced to specks, overwhelmed figures in an artificial landscape, has functioned as the visual centerpiece of such classic fiction films as King Vidor’s “The Crowd” and Billy ...

Edward Burtynsky’s stunning photographs manage to be both beautiful and simultaneously horrifying, and film director Jennifer Baichwal has managed to capture both the aesthetic and concept behind ...

Might as well get this out of the way right off the bat: The opening shot of “Manufactured Landscapes” is eight minutes long, soundless and nothing happens. Scared off yet? The stately “Landscapes” is ...

Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal likes to look to other artists for her documentary portraits. In 1998, she focused on a writer in Manufactured Landscapes. Baichwal opens Manufactured Landscapes with an ...

Initially, Jennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes recalls last year’s Our Daily Bread. A clinical crawl through a gargantuan Chinese factory – with its endless, evenly spaced stations of laborers ...

In an interminably long opening shot, a camera rolls by row upon row of Chinese workers in an enormous factory complex. This sequence demonstrates extraordinary access to a closely guarded world, as ...

Edward Burtynsky's large-scale photographs are undeniably beautiful, said Kenneth Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle. But in his work, beauty means trouble. Burtynsky photographs landscapes ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Debris is the true protagonist of this film: staggering amounts of waste that, when ...