12 Aug 1998
Megacities
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Manufactured Landscapes
Beauty transformed.
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.
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