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Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes

Beauty transformed.

2006•1h 30m•7.2/10
Documentary

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7.2/10(56)

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.

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Foundry Films, ONF | NFB, Mercury Films, Inc., Mercury Films

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

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