Documentary Screening “Manufactured Landscapes”

Sun 05 Apr 2015, 2 pm – 5 pm
Hanoi Old Quarter Culture Exchange Center (3rd floor)

From the organizer:

You are invited to the documentary screening of “Manufactured Landscapes” by Architecture Movies Club / am.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES, directed by Jennifer Baichwal, is a feature length documentary about environmental disaster affected by industrialization. China, the world’s biggest aggregate emitter, is a typical example.

The film involves the photographs and videos of photographer and visual artist Ed Burtynsky’s trip through landscapes that have been altered by large-scale human activity, captured with Super-16mm film… While some would some call the work beautiful, his main goal was to challenge notions while raising questions about the interplay of environmental ethics and aesthetics. The footage was compiled from a trip to China where Burtynsky visited factories which Western society has come to rely on for most of its appliances, including a factory that produces most of the world’s supply of clothes irons, which is one kilometer in length and employs 23,000 workers. The film also features the Three Gorges Dam, which, along with being the largest dam in the world, has uprooted more than one million people and flooded 13 cities, 140 towns and 1350 villages since the beginning of its construction in 1994. [Wikipedia]

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.

Free entrance.