Have you seen the movie, Manufactured Landscapes? The opening sequence, of fractal-like plants and natural environments, followed by a sequence of highly polluted environments, will blow your mind, but not in the way you might expect. You see, seeing the natural beauty and fractal-like existence of “natural nature” slammed up against the “manmade nature” of polluted, but no less beautiful and and fractal-like environments, makes the viewer acutely aware of human’s place in nature, and by extension, the place in nature of all things humans make.

Most people going to see Manufactured Landscapes, I would assume, are environmentally-minded and ready to see and rail against the destruction humans are wreaking on their home planet. So this view of people as ant-like creatures, swarming across an environment, changing it substantially, both to meet their needs and move them towards destruction through the depletion of their food supply, is not - I would assume - what they would expect.

The rest of the movie is not as compelling as the opening sequence, though if you like images, using your eyes more than your language comprehension brain lobe, Manufactured Landscapes is going to more than meet your needs. A good soundtrack; maybe something like Monolake or any one of the artists that play at Mutek, each year, would vastly improve Manufactured Landscapes as well. That being said, the second half of the movie has music, which helps. Dubbing the speech of the Asian workers would be appreciated also. If there’s a guy talking at length on screen, and I can’t understand what they’re saying, I get annoyed.

Manufactured Landscapes is a prime candidate for one of those movies in the park sort of things, where musicians play along outdoors, accenting a film. I suppose copyright laws mean it will never happen. How about a fan dub?