Watermark

2013

Action / Documentary

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59% · 35 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1065 1.1K

woman director

Plot summary

Following their triumph with Manufactured Landscapes, photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal reunite to explore the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated and depleted one of its most vital and compromised resources: water.

Director

Jennifer Baichwal Photo
Jennifer Baichwal

Top cast

Shaowu Zhou Photo
Shaowu Zhou as Self
Polly Hankins Photo
Polly Hankins as Self
Yunfei Bai Photo
Yunfei Bai as Self
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen Photo
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen as Self
720p.BluRay
831.17 MB
1280*688
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by annuskavdpol 6 / 10

Fragmented yet contemplative.

Watermark is a movie about water. It is film in a very choppy way and the narrative is not really structured in a way that allows the audience to understand what is going on, yet this movie seems to have something kind of special about it. I believe that the thinking process of the film-maker, to be unique to the film world, which is a positive thing. I believe this movie to be a stamp of the film makers consciousness in the sense of the fragmentation of the pictures, combined with the story. This approach forces the audience to individual the film experience and to piece together the essence of the movie.Having lived in British Columbia, Canada and having lived near the Fraser River in Canada, I can understand the beauty that river water has. The natural flow of water is a profoundly spiritual sensation because of the beauty of flowing water combined with the sound of rushing water, on the other hand, river water can be very destructive out of her own nature, as when the mountain snows melt and dams break and houses and human lives get destroyed, there is a feeling of utter helpless and despair that goes hand and hand with the profound beauty of water. One of the main conflicts in human life is man against nature. And to me that is what this is movie is about.
Reviewed by runamokprods 9 / 10

Poetic tone poem of a film about water and human beings

Stunningly beautiful and powerful images highlight this examination of how mankind re-shapes water and how it flows – for good and ill, more often ill - and in turn how the water re-shapes civilization and human behavior. There's no real story, just a series of visits to locations around the world where water powerfully interacts with humanity, like the pilgrimage of 30 million people to bathe in the Ganges river.Without narration and a specific focus the film could be accused of being too diffuse. But for me the raw power of the images – Burtynsky is one of our greatest still photographers who has spent much of his career creating huge images of humans and nature clashing and interacting - give the piece a poetic, if not literal power and solidity. Also, if the film is not enough, there's an almost 40 minute gallery of Burtynsky's amazing still images, which look great blown up on a HD set, as he explains the photographs and how they were taken. That extra alone is reason enough to own the blu-ray. It's like the world's best photography book, with the images at least a little closer in size to Burtynsky's massive prints.
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