The Dryden will screen Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, U.S. 2006, 90 min., 35mm).

Documenting the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, this film dramatically enhances the power of still images to convey the scale and impact of human labor on our planet. Burtynsky's photograph of the factory where workers produce twenty million steam irons a year is accentuated by the opening eight-minute tracking shot of endless rows of these workers assembling parts. Likewise, his images of coal mining, shipbreaking, dam building, electronics recycling, and other work sites reveal the landscape that we change—that we disrupt—in the pursuit of progress.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Oct-17]