[Ache]

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‘Manufactured Landscapes’ to be Screened March 13

By Jill Yesko, University Relations

Contact (336) 334-3890

Posted:2-28-08

GREENSBORO, N.C. –“Manufactured Landscapes,” Jennifer Baichwal’s sweeping documentary that chronicles changes in the Chinese landscape caused by the impact of industry and manufacturing, will be shown on Thursday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the Weatherspoon Art Museum auditorium.

The film is part of UNCG’s year-long sustainability film series.

"Manufactured Landscapes" follows Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels through China shooting the dizzying effects of the country’s massive industrial revolution. Known for his large-scale photographs of factories, huge industrial dumps, workers breaking down ships with crude tools, strip mines and dams, Burtynsky shows how the rapid pace of industrialization is causing degradation of both the physical and human landscape.

In one of the film’s most powerful sequences, Burtynsky visits the site of China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric project and the country’s biggest construction effort since the Great Wall. The controversial project, which has been estimated to have displaced over one million people, will have devastating environmental consequences due to water pollution behind the massive dam, according to environmentalists..

The final film in the Sustainability Series, “Wild Caught,” UNCG professor Matt Barr’s documentary about challenges to North Carolina fishing communities, will be shown on April 10.

The series is sponsored by the UNCG sustainability committee, the Sierra Club and Deep Roots Market.The public is welcome at no charge for all films.

For more information contact Sarah Dorsey at (336) 334-5610, or sbdorsey@uncg.edu. For information about sustainability at UNCG visit http://sustain.uncg.edu.

[Ferretlover]

Thinking out loud:
I wonder how many people would be more receptive to seeing what is happening in a country other than their own.
I wonder how many people who see the series will apply the information/situation to their own country?

[Homesteader]

Thanks for posting, I intend to go.

[Opies]

i saw this about 6 or 7 months ago. How is it just being released in 5 days?

Very good watch btw. There are quite a few shocking scenes

[mistel]

I saw it months ago as well. I rented it at Blockbuster. If you are on this website, you will find this movie interesting. I was going to say you will like the movie, but it is like saying you like watching car wreaks.