Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

Manufactured Landscapes 2006 Jennifer Baichwals cameras follow Edward Burtynsky 1955 as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes slag heaps, e waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place in Bangladesh where ships are taken apart for recycling In China, workers gather outside the factory, exhorted by their team leader to produce more and make fewer errors A woman assembles a circuit breaker, and women and children are seen picking through debris or playing in it Burtynsky concludes with a visit to Shanghai, the worlds fastest growing city, where wealth and poverty, high rises and old neighborhoods are side by side