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    Documentary Films: <i>Manufactured Landscapes</i> and <i>Shifting Nature</i>

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    Presented by Belmont University

    September 18, 2009

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    Manufactured Landscapes works triple-time as a documentary portrait, a tone poem, and a work of protest. Director Jennifer Baichwal (The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia). In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening hits as An Inconvenient Truth and powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it. The film follows internationally acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky whose large-scale photographs of manufactured landscapes, quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams create stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. Burtynsky's photographs allow us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.

    This event is part of Belmont University's Eighth Annual Humanities Symposium, which this year is centered on the concept Nature and the Human Spirit. Be sure to check out the long program schedule and short program schedule.


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        Tickets: FREE Admission

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        September 18, 2009

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        Friday 7:30pm - 9:00pm

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