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導演 Jennifer Baichwal
2006, 86min 28 s/ English with Chinese subtitle 英語發音中文字幕/ Betacam/ Color 彩色 |
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過去三十多年來,世界知名的加拿大重量級攝影家愛德華‧伯汀斯基(Edward Burtynsky)不斷的透過宏構攝影,將採礦場、垃圾場、資源回收場、水壩等人類工業所製造出來的景觀,呈現在世人眼前。近幾年來,伯汀斯基把攝影目標轉向中國,本片製作小組即跟隨伯汀斯基前赴中國,見証與捕捉中國在大規模工業革命中鮮少為人所見的景觀面向。本片取景地點包括:三峽大壩,世界上最大的水壩,面積是全球第二大水壩的兩倍之多;鋼鐵廠,年產量高達兩千萬噸的鋼鐵廠廠內情景;上海,上海都市更新計畫的規模之大,令人咋舌。伯汀斯基以照相機捕捉這些地點的工業景觀,本片製作小組則跟隨伯汀斯基的眼光角度,用攝影機拍下這些地點的工業景觀。全片採用超十六釐米底片拍攝而成,畫質細膩,色彩飽滿。本片要旨並不在於表達一個單純化的批判,或是得出一個簡單化的結論,而是將重點放在延伸伯汀斯基的攝影敘事,冥思人類對地球所造成的衝擊,祈盼透過電影畫面,讓觀眾以另一個角度來覺察人類所生存的這個世界以及現今人類的生活方式。
For almost three decades, internationally renowned Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky has been creating large scale photographs of landscapes transformed by industry: quarries, scrap heaps, factories, recycling yards, dams. Manufactured Landscapes follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country capturing the evidence and effects of China's massive industrial revolution. Rarely witnessed sites such as the Three Gorges Dam (50% larger than any other dam in the world), the interior of a factory which produces 20 million irons a year, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera. Shot in sumptuous super 16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, meditating on human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, the film shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it. |