The
second film to be released by photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer
Baichwal will look at “…the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated
and depleted one of its most vital and compromised resources: water.”
Burtynsky
and Baichwal’s first film ‘Manufactured Landscapes’ (2006) is a documentary
where the audience follow Burtynsky’s journey across Asia through Baichwal’s
camera. The power of the film comes by way of the absent opinion of the
conditions revealed on Burtnysky’s journey. The film is a device that frames
and captures a realistic, un-biased, a-political view of the world - forcing
the viewers to experience or pass their own response to what they witness.
Burtynsky’s images capture the sublime through
the framing of the ‘unseen’; it will be exciting to see how this pair captures
the ‘life’ that is embodied in liquid. The film is scheduled to be released in
Canadian theatres on October 11 2013 and opens in Toronto on September 27 2013.
Hopefully it will make it on to the program for the Adelaide Film Festival!
WATERMARK trailer found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpvarPeJpkM,
accessed 21.08.2013
More about the Adelaide Film Festival here: http://adelaidefilmfestival.org/
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