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Did you love Rivers and Tides and its idyllic aesthetic view of the world? Well, take that and give it a twist of despair -- famous art photographer Edward Burtynsky went to China to take some beautiful pictures of the horrors of mass industrialization, and they've made a documentary about his work, called Manufactured Landscapes. The movie is supposed to be absolutely amazing.
If you're interested in seeing it, it's opening at the Lumiere (California and Polk) this Friday and Burtynsky himself will be in attendance and taking questions about his work.
...and while we have you here, and while we're on the topic of industriousness and horror -- this isn't related to Manufacturing Landscapes, but we did want to tell you that SFist's bestest film buddy and the hardest working man in the biz, Chris Wiggum, who passes along all the good indie movie tips around town and helps us arrange all our excellent giveaways for movie passes, is speaking on a panel tonight!!! Go! It's about why horror movies are so much fun to watch, and it's at 111 Minna at 6:30 p.m. tonight, $15. Go and tell Chris how awesome he is!
Photo credit: "Manufacturing #17," at the Deda Chicken Processing Plant in Dehua, Jilin Province, China, by Edward Burtynsky, (c) 2005.
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That photo is gorgeous. So purdy. I mean, minus the "horrors of mass industrialization," of course.
*AND* at 7:30 on the same block
http://www.literarydeathmatch.com
Tuesday July 17, 7:30pm
Join the San Francisco debut of Opium's Literary Death Match on July
17 at Harlot (46 Minna). Doors open at 7:30 p.m., reading starts at
8:30, and by 9:45, a champion will be crowned.
Judges Howard Junker (ZYZZYVA), Beth Lisick (Everyone into the Pool)
and Jon Wolanske (Killing My Lobster) will choose two finalists from
McSweeney's (Stephen Elliott), Canteen (Joyce Maynard), Fiction Attic
(Michelle Richmond) and Kitchen Sink (Sam Hurwitt). The finalists will
square off in "Stab a Hole in Nebraska" to decide the champion.
At Harlot, 46 Minna, San Francisco.
Further details at http://www.literarydeathmatch.com
Like Burtynsky's photos, Colby Buzzell just wrote an article in Esquire magazine that really illuminates the soulless capitalistic takeover of Chinese industry. You can read it online at www.esquire.com/china0807