Environmental Film Series - Manufactured Landscapes
Mar 18, 2010 7:30 PM
Description:
Join Green Spaces Alliance and Solar San Antonio for another film in the Environmental Film Series, "Manufactured Landscapes."
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes"-quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams-Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.
In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening sleeper-hits as AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and RIVERS AND TIDES, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions.
Tickets will be $5 for for Solar San Antonio members, students, seniors, EchoTown green card holders, and members of Green Spaces Alliance, the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance, Bexar Audubon Society, and The Sierra Club. General admission is $9.
View trailer and purchase tickets for the film.
Location:
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Park North
1255 SW Loop 410
San Antonio, TX 78227
Contact:
For more information, visit Solar San Antonio's Web site.
