Movies: Jennifer Baichwal

  • 2018
    Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

    Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)

    Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

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    Documentary on psychedelic potash mines, expansive concrete seawalls, mammoth industrial machines, and other examples of humanity’s massive, destructive reengineering of the planet....

    Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
  • 2006
    Manufactured Landscapes

    Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

    Manufactured Landscapes

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    MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and ...

    Manufactured Landscapes
  • 2008
    Capturing Reality

    Capturing Reality (2008)

    Capturing Reality

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    From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the...

    Capturing Reality
  • 2024
    Wilfred Buck

    Wilfred Buck (2024)

    Wilfred Buck

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    Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and irreverent Indigenous Elder who overcame a harrowing history of displacement, racism, and addiction by...

    Wilfred Buck
  • 2023
    Swan Song

    Swan Song (2023)

    Swan Song

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    An immersive, behind-the-scenes look at one of the world’s leading ballet companies as it mounts a new production of Swan Lake. Ballet icon Karen Kain, on the eve of her retirement, directs the National Ballet of Canada. The film weaves together inti...

    Swan Song
  • 2013
    Watermark

    Watermark (2013)

    Watermark

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    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: wa...

    Watermark
  • 1999
    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1999)

    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

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    One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen. Set against the dramatic landscape of North Africa, the ...

    Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
  • 2017
    The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running

    The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running (2017)

    The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running

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    A documentary chronicling The Tragically Hip during the emotional lead up through to the epic last show of the iconic Canadian band's now legendary 2016 tour....

    The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
  • 2015
    Kandahar Journals

    Kandahar Journals (2015)

    Kandahar Journals

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    Kandahar, Afghanistan, April 2006. Photojournalist Louie Palu, who is covering a suicide bombing, suddenly finds himself in the middle of a pile of corpses, shocked by the smell of burning flesh. Louie does not yet know that he will spend the next fi...

    Kandahar Journals
  • 2009
    Act of God

    Act of God (2009)

    Act of God

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    A Canadian documentary feature film that investigates the effects of being struck by lightning....

    Act of God
  • 2002
    The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia

    The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2002)

    The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia

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    The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia....

    The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia
  • 2022
    Into the Weeds

    Into the Weeds (2022)

    Into the Weeds

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    Dewayne Johnson, a Bay Area groundskeeper, suffered from rashes in 2014 and wondered if they were caused by the herbicide he'd been using for the past couple years. As his health deteriorated, Johnson became the face of a David-and-Goliath legal batt...

    Into the Weeds
  • 2012
    Payback

    Payback (2012)

    Payback

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    An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book examining the metaphor of indebtedness....

    Payback
  • 2018
    Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland

    Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland (2018)

    Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland

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    Short film depicting the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Part of the Anthropocene installation....

    Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland