Social Issues: Documentaries and Debates
Manufactured Landscapes Cert U
Directed by: Jennifer Baichwal, Canada 2006, 1hr 30mins
24-26 May, 14.50, 17.50 and 20,20
27 May, 17.50 and 20.00
28-29 May, 17.50
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
£6.00 / £4.50

To book, contact Watershed Media Centre on: 0117 927 5100 or visit in person

Acclaimed by Al Gore as "beautiful, insightful and thought-provoking", Baichwal’s award-winning documentary centres on renowned artist Edward Burtynsky whose large-scale photographs portray the devastating impact of industrial expansion on the environment.

Baichwal observes the artist at work amid some of the most surreal landscapes of the twenty-first century: China’s mountains of computer waste; the Yangtze River where whole towns are disappearing in the flooding caused by the Three Gorges Dam; the shipbreaking yards of Bangladesh; Shanghai, with its increasingly crowded skyline and millions of new inhabitants. Eschewing polemics, Burtynsky aims simply to bring these landscapes into our consciousness, to provoke reflection on some highly inconvenient truths.

JOIN THE DEBATE
Share your thoughts about this event by posting your comments below. Should you wish to retract a comment, or if you experience any technical problems, please email: ideas@gwebusinesswest.co.uk. We reserve the right to delete posts containing offensive language, sexist or racist comments.