Eight minutes. That's how long it takes director Jennifer Baichwal's swift-moving camera to track from one end of the 480-meter-long Cankun factory floor to the other in "Manufactured Landscapes'" ...

This is part of a series of essays by panellists featured on the new CBC Arts talk show The Filmmakers. A panellist from each episode writes about the film being featured this week, which this week is ...

The spectacle of workers reduced to specks, overwhelmed figures in an artificial landscape, has functioned as the visual centerpiece of such classic fiction films as King Vidor’s “The Crowd” and Billy ...

Initially, Jennifer Baichwal‘s “Manufactured Landscapes” recalls last year’s “Our Daily Bread.” A clinical crawl through a gargantuan Chinese factory – with its endless, evenly spaced stations of ...

Edward Burtynsky’s stunning photographs manage to be both beautiful and simultaneously horrifying, and film director Jennifer Baichwal has managed to capture both the aesthetic and concept behind ...

The Exhibit Manufactured Landscapes consists of several large galleries filled with Edward Burtynsky`s beautiful, large-format, color photographs of railcuts, mines and tailings, quarries, oil fields ...

Initially, Jennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes recalls last year’s Our Daily Bread. A clinical crawl through a gargantuan Chinese factory – with its endless, evenly spaced stations of laborers ...

Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal likes to look to other artists for her documentary portraits. In 1998, she focused on a writer in Manufactured Landscapes. Baichwal opens Manufactured Landscapes with an ...

A documentary by Jennifer Baichwal. Rated general. Opens Friday, October 20, at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas and the Cinemark Tinseltown Manufactured Landscapes opens with an extended, unedited pan shot ...

In an interminably long opening shot, a camera rolls by row upon row of Chinese workers in an enormous factory complex. This sequence demonstrates extraordinary access to a closely guarded world, as ...