Screening: Manufactured Landscapes

Jennifer Crouch
Sep 10, 2016
1 min read

Making in Transit brings you the final Arctic Circle residency fundraising event taking place at The Depot Clapton from 18:30. We will celebrate the launch of our website

makingintransit.com, with a screening of Manufactured Landscapes (2008).

This is a documentary about the work of Canadian landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky, which documents changes in landscapes due to relentless industrial work and manufacturing, revealing gritty, seldom-seen industrial scenes and the thousands of individuals that toil within them. The large-scale images are unique and glorious yet also dispiriting and disturbing, revealing the complex dynamics between industrial manufacture and human communities. Leaving many questions open to debate, Burtynsky himself states that he takes no political stance and suggests that anthropogentic (human-generated) activity of this scale and impact requires a 'new way of thinking'.

The screening will be followed by a discussion and you'll find a cake-stall and print sale at the screening and all funds raised at this event will go towards the Making in Transit seminar series and workshop which will take place during our exhibition at The Cube, London between the 01/12/2016 and the 24/03/2017.

Tickets (£5) available on Eventbrite. We look forward to seeing you there!

Watch the trailer for Manufactured Landscapes below

Watch Edward Burtynsky's TED presentation: 'From mountains of tires to rivers of bright orange waste from a nickel mine, his images are simultaneously beautiful and horrifying.'