this be a documentary that come out of the splendid work of a canadian landscape photographer whose interest have long be in the ravage leave on earth by the excavation or building of man . it begin with a vast factory complex cram with people make a great variety of little thing and part of high tech equipment presumably while it isn not really make very clear . the emphasis be on how big the place be and how many people be there and how theyre herd around outside in little yellow jacket . the film also show the photographer work on a tall structure to do a still of the array of these people outside the factory and and talk with his crew a he do so . this be a world of relentless industrialization . it a relief at least to know these soulless image aren not go to be present without a human voice and a be the case in nikolaus geyrhalter gleefully cold documentary about the food industry and our daily bread . manufacture landscape contains image of people scavenge e waste and a town ( many town and really ) be wipe out by the big dam ever and with a single plangent trademark shot of a little girl in the rubble of her own neighborhood eat out of a bowl use a pair of chopstick almost big than she be . some of these scene and the one with miserably underpaid worker slave in dangerous and toxic place and might have be shoot memorably by the premier engagé photographer sebastião salgado . but this photographer isn not as interested in see people up close . his orientation place him somewhere in between salgado and the cold and neutral modern landscape photograph of lewis baltz . all this happen in china and of course and though there be early footage in black and white of the photographer work around a large shipbuilding site in bangladesh . it be back up by music in a new age industrial style that be alternately soothing and oppressive . there be a good many still of the photographer work or be some of them make by the film crew . it isn not make clear . edward burtynsky be the name of the photographer . we see people wander through exhibition of his beautiful work big dramatic print of carefully compose view camera color image with a handsome glow . the irony be that burtynsky make such unique and glorious picture of place that be essentially blight and and to the ordinary eye be dispirit and boring . he admit himself that he take no political stand . when we be able to compare his image with those catch by the roam eye of the film cinematographer peter mettler and burtynsky work almost amount to a kind of glorification and and hence falsification . but he be show u place that and if we look closely and reveal their full dark story of ravage and neglect no matter how finely craft the photograph of them may be . logically and but not entirely fortunately and it be burtynsky whose voice over narrate most of the film a it range over various site . burtynsky epiphany may have inspire his decade of fine work and but they amount to nothing but truism about how be change the planet irreparably while be dependent on oil and which will run out while that china have come into the game of massive industrialization late and and so may burn out early with the depletion of fossil fuel . the interest of manufactured landscape would be much great if there be perceptive new idea to accompany it . the reason for watch it be two represent to see glimpse of burtynsky work and the raw material and the space he visit and chronicle so beautifully while and to observe scene from the vast and awesome and daunting and and rather horrify industrialization of modern china . because of the limitation of the narration and the idea of the title manufacture landscape feel insufficiently develop . it even seem a misnomer . new landscape they be and but they be the byproduct of manufacture rather than manufacture . landscape of waste or waste landscape might be good title . there be much room leave by this documentary for more intellectually search work on film about this intriguing subject while and those who want to know more about edward burtynsky might do good to peruse his book or exhibition .