In an interminably long opening shot, a camera rolls by row upon row of Chinese workers in an enormous factory complex. This sequence demonstrates extraordinary access to a closely guarded world, as ...

Zeitgeist Films has nabbed all U.S. rights to Jennifer Baichwal's "Manufactured Landscapes," a documentary following photographer Edward Burtynsky's quest to document the current industrial revolution ...

The first set piece alone—a seemingly endless tracking shot of a huge Chinese factory—is reason enough to see this documentary, which traces the photographer Edward Burtynsky as he attempts to ...

“Manufactured Landscapes” opens with an eight-minute tracking shot of a Chinese factory, showing row upon row of tables and machines manned by silent workers doing their repetitive tasks. Then the ...

As a teenager in northern Ontario, Edward Burtynsky worked in a gold mine and an auto plant, and he brings to his panoramic still photographs a fascination with industry and the natural landscape that ...