Watermark

Jennifer Baichwal and photographer Edward Burtynsky's second collaboration takes to the skies to investigate ‘how water shapes us, and how we shape water.’

Providing the perfect global context for our Birmingham-on-Sea theme, this new documentary takes to the skies to investigate ‘how water shapes us, and how we shape water.’ From the pounding torrents of the Xiaolangdi dam in China to the arid wastes of the Colorado River Basin, a spectacular and sobering series of images eloquently bring home our water-dependence. Watermark is the second collaboration between documentarist Jennifer Baichwal and photographer Edward Burtynsky (after Manufactured Landscapes, 2006), and this time the focus is less on Burtynsky’s work than the world he explores, aided by some astonishing high-definition camerawork.

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