Watermark

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is proud to present Watermark from reputed documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Baichwal and renowned environmental photographer, Edward Burtynsky.

Premiering at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival, Watermark is a thought-provoking exploration into humanity's inextricable relationship to water. Baichwal and Burtynsky have reunited for the first time since Manufactured Landscapes in a film that asks: how does water shape us and how do we shape water?

Spanning great waterways alongside man-made inventions, Watermark is staggeringly beautiful in its scope. The film pays witness to spiritual gatherings on the mighty Ganges, the untouched majesty of Northern British Columbia, and the industrial might of the Xiluodu Damn in China.

Journeying across the globe, the environmental message becomes clear. However, Baichwal and Burtynsky allow audiences to draw their own conclusions from the diverse, challenging and breathtaking images.

Burtynsky's painstaking methods of photographing such an expansive subject matter for his latest book, Water are captured in fine-grain detail by Nicholas de Pencier's outstanding cinematography. The film moves between the production of the book and each of the varied locations.