Into the Weeds director Jennifer Baichwal on telling the story of Dewayne Lee Johnson, the Monsanto company, and its collective stakes.
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The Anthropocene is a concept ripe for exploration by documentarians, who have a unique ability to depict the scale of human impact on the world. How films like Anthropocene: The Human Epoch,
Keep ReadingLights, camera, spectacular success – backlash. So it goes with the films co-created by Ed Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. The trio is launching Anthropocene, the third in their eco-conscious
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Anthropocene is the third installment in the team’s epic trilogy of spectacular environmental essay films that began with Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013). The latest film is the culmination of a major body of work.
Keep ReadingJennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes opens with a cinematic coup. An eight-minute tracking shot slowly sweeps across a factory floor in China.
Keep ReadingWatermark is a brilliant documentary feature, a cinematic essay that examines its subject—water—in diverse and enlightening ways.
Keep ReadingAn interview with Watermark directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier about their essay film follow-up to Manufactured Landscapes.
Keep ReadingWatermark is a continuation of Burtynsky’s work, which is recognizable for his signature big-picture approach to photography and environmentalism.
Keep ReadingIs the acclaimed Manufactured Landscapes coolly representative of a pervasive yet unacknowledged nihilism in documentary?
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