It's actually the first in what became a series!

Watermark [0] and The Anthropocene[1] are both phenomenal. In fact, in terms of cinematography, I think Watermark is the best. Manufactured Landscapes was absolutely earth-shattering in my own consideration of humans and our ecologies though.

If you find yourself liking Burtynsky may I also suggest checking out Richard Misrach and the classic book of Manfred Hamm photography, Dead Tech [2].

(We'd be remiss to leave out the contributions of Jennifer Baichwal to all three films and Nicholas de Pencier on The Anthropocene.)

[0] https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/watermark

[1] https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/anthropocene-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Tech-Guide-Archaeology-Tomorrow/... (Only linked to Amazon because people have posted images)

Burtynsky's environmental trilogy is worth exploring in full: Manufactured Landscapes (2006), Watermark (2013), and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018).

The whole movie is available on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ManufacturedLandscapes_201902

http://web.archive.org/web/20250713051005/https://www.newyor...

That book put me in a really bad place for more than a year. It was so depressing, i just couldnt shake the inevitablity of it all.

The fascist take over of the US has been a quaint distraction, but in the end it also means nothing compared to the collapse of the food chain. You cant eat dollars.