A review of the documentary Manufacured Landscapes, directed by Jennifer Baichwala about Edward Burtynsky's monumentally sublime photographic safaris into the ugly industrialized corners of the world. So is this the Koyaanisqatsi of the new millennium? NYT
[The film]is partly a Great Man documentary, a record of an artist immortalized at the moment of creation: point, shoot, voilà! Rather more interestingly, at times, it also appears to be a rather tentative, perhaps even unconscious, critique of that same artist and his vision.
It seems that the film doesn't explore the environmental toll of the industrial devastation or try to find the humanity of the people that are fetishized by his photos - so all that we get to see is the American Technological Sublime at play.
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