manufactured landscapes

the subject is photographer Edward Burtynsky, and the film is a documentary about his work on ... well, Manufactured Landscapes. The trailer is above.

And here's the opening shot, an amazing, eight minute rolling shot of row after row of worktables on a factory floor. You start out thinking, oh this is just a boring factory scene ... an interior. And after about a minute of row after row after row going by, you start to get it: this is a landscape, not an interior.

And here's a segment with Burtynsky himself speaking from a Canadian tv show.

I still haven't seen the film, but this whole things excites me to no end. I'm gonna go consume some of his product and then report back (maybe).