The film Manufactured Landscapes puts the steaming springs of the global flow of goods into the picture. In a minute-long tracking shot surrounds the opening sequence, a birthplace electrical ground products. Thousands of people produce in a clean layout assembly hall components and devices. In other scenes will be seen en photographers at work, to scrap transfer points, container terminals, or a construction site of the Three Gorges Dam. In the shadow of the photographer Edward Burtynsky is followed by the director be determined with a narrative. The pictures hardly an analytical approach to deepen and enrich not ethical reasoning. One neither pompous nor denouncing aestheticization it is possible to show viewers new approaches. Beauty does not have to necessarily glorify.
The film documents how high is the substrate of the western industrial information society remained. The screens and iron, iPods and Gucci bags adheres to an aura of coal dust and low-paid industrial jobs.
The film Manufactured Landscapes by Jennifer Baichwal runs as a premiere in Zurich Filmpodium .
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