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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
[Edward Burtynsky] Is there some way I can actually talk about nature, and kind of bring a certain appreciation for what it represents; that we come from nature, and you have to understand what it is so as not to harm it, and then ultimately harm ourselves; that there is an importance to have a certain reverence for what nature is, because we are connected to it, and we are part of it, and if we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. I believe that as a fundamental philosophical position when I look at the world.
So I started thinking, "Maybe the new landscape of our time, the one to start to talk about, is the landscape that we change, the one that we disrupt in pursuit of progress."
So I'm trying to look at industrial landscape as a way of defining who we are, and our relationship to the planet. It's this thing that's growing, and it's part of our economy; and it's part of our politics; and it's a part of how we elect our governments; and it's a part of everything we do. But it's this big machine that started rolling. And I'm not coming at it to celebrate or glorify industry, nor am I trying to damn it. I'm just trying to say, "Well, this is what it is."
So to show those types of images, or those types of places, allows the viewer to begin to comprehend the scale.
So it's another landscape; it IS a landscape. It's a different landscape.
MERCURY FILMS
in co-production with THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA |
