Komm, susser Tod_

推荐近日广受好评的新片一部, 对城市发展题材感兴趣的人不要错过…

 
Manufactured Landscapes
(人造风景)

Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2006
Countary: Canada
Lengh: 90min
Genre: Documentary
Awards:
TIFF Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film 2006
Best Canadian Documentary, Atlantic Film Festival 2006
Best Canadian Documentary, Calgary Film Festival 2006
Best Feature documentary & Best Canadian Film, Toronto Film Critics Association 2006
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832903/

Ultimately Landscapes is the portrait of one man’s voyage as it follows celebrated still photographer Edward Burtynsky on a tour of Asia. Burtynsky takes large-format stills of industrial landscapes: factory workers lined up to infinity, giant ships eviscerated, massive recycling dumps, expansive strip mines. His goal is to portray humanity’s relationship to nature as we pursue progress. His images are striking and picturesque, leaving viewers on their own to comprehend the negative global ramifications.

身处镜头前的人物Edward Burtynsky本身是个以工业风景作题材的摄影师, 自然注定了这部关于他的Manufactured Landscapes 不同一般纪录片, 而是走更为视觉系的路线. 

Edward的足迹遍布福建的巨型厂房, 垃圾回收场, 三峡大坝工地, 华北的煤矿, 甚至还有东南亚的拆船厂…他常在极端的环境之下捕捉着超现实的瞬间, 与此同时, 随行的导演从自己的角度把他这些工作记录了下来. 所以这部电影其实是两人经历沉淀下来的结果. 工业发展, 环境变迁这类题材算不上有多新鲜, 但我觉得在该片中 记录者同时也成为了记录的一部分, 这点颇经玩味… 

还有 (其实也无需多提) Edward的摄影作品实在赞…

  © Edward Burtynsky

你我说不定也曾与类似的”风景”擦身而过, 最多是规模略有不同罢. 不信的话可到Industrial Decay 和Urban Decay 这两个我也常去的Flickr photo set看看, 几乎每天都有能让人眼前一亮的习作出现.

另: 本片在emule上目前只有无字幕版本.