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Chinese New Year: Manufactured Landscapes
Sun 29 Jan
“Powerful! Engrossing! Unsettlingly beautiful!” LA Times
In this series of extraordinary visual portraits, renowned artist Edward Burtynsky travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of its massive industrial revolution and the implicit impact on the environment. Director Jennifer Baichwal captures the artist at work amid some of the most surreal landscapes of the 21st century: the mountains of 'ewaste' in China where 50% of the world's computers end up to be recycled; the Yangtze Valley where whole towns are being demolished to make way for the Three Gorges Dam and the crowded skyline of Shanghai which has recently attracted millions of new inhabitants.
Winner – Best Canadian Film, Toronto International Film Festival
Region: AsiaKey themes: consumerism, environment (general)
Strand: Faces of Change
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Sun 29 Jan, 18:00
Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ
Followed by a panel discussion
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