Manufactured Landscapes

To start off, the beginning scene with the camera that pans across the side of the massive factory was eye-opening. The film is a basic aesthetic study of industrial landscapes. The documenters shed light on the tedious and repetitive individual processes that make up giant manufacturing processes, like disassembling electronics and breaking down cities that will soon be covered in water. The conditions of the places where electronic waste recycling was taking place were terrible. Smog and pollution filled the air, with disgusting work areas for what they are doing. I am sure that they weren't protecting the workers from materials that contain cancer causing toxins either. The villages they were breaking down that would soon be covered in water literally looked like bomb sites.