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condition, but in a medium that was more lateral and more emotionally accessible than an academic paper." She has stated that the documentary "allows you to reflect on ... things that are happening in the real world in a way that is creative". Her films often attempt to investigate problems within documentary film form. She says: "There has to be some kind of mystery as well - a meta-level problem that the film becomes a response to. Our Paul Bowles film is about the impossibility of biography. The Holier It Gets is about the perils of confessional work, and The True Meaning of Pictures is about issues of representation. Manufactured Landscapes, proceeding from Edward Burtynsky's photographs, is about changing consciousness through witnessing the places we are all responsible for, but normally never get to see."

236:. Made near the end of Bowles' life, Baichwal was able to screen the film for the author before his death in 1999. She says of the experience viewing the film with her subject: "It was very important for me that he see before he died; he had just turned 88. I was petrified as to what he would think of it, he's a real misanthrope and recluse. I got to his place, and I wanted him to watch it after I left and then write to me. But he was insistent. So he put it on, and he has quite bad glaucoma, so he was sitting six inches from the screen. I shut the door, and I kind of panicked for 75 minutes while he was watching it." 31: 164:, after he had suggested de Pencier when she needed a cinematographer for her film. Together, they have two children, a son Magnus born in 2000 and a daughter Anna born in 2003. The couple started a production company in 2000, originally under the name Requisite Productions, now called Mercury Films. 314:

is a documentary about the metaphysical questions surrounding the event of being struck by lightning. It features various accounts from people who have either been struck lightning or witnessed the act. It looks into scientific, cultural and religious interpretations of lightning showers from around

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After completing her master's at McGill, Baichwal decided to pursue documentary film work as she found that it provided her the right avenue to explore the questions and issues that she had studied in her program. Baichwal on her career choice: "I wanted to explore these questions of the human

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Many of her films' subjects are artists of other mediums than film. In an interview with the Seventh Art, Baichwal mentions how she is drawn to artists, stating: "There is something about art that can't be paraphrased and just living in the complexity of that world is very rich for me..."

361:, the second collaboration between Baichwal and Burtynsky, sees the photographer co-directing the film alongside her. The documentary looks into the abuse of water, its effect and the dependence as water as a source of life. The film is accompanied by Burtynsky's series titled 273:. The film takes a layered approach to Adams' work, it features interviews with the photographer, his subjects and his critics. The film's title comes from one of Adam's subjects and defenders in the face of accusations of exploitation and stereotypes from the photographer. 252:

is a documentary about Baichwal and her siblings pilgrimage to India to put their father's ashes in the Ganges river. It was filmed on 16mm by Nick de Pencier. The film explores themes of grief, closure, the afterlife and spirituality.

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is Baichwal's third collaboration with Burtynsky. The documentary explores humanity's aggregate impacts on the natural world, and whether they justify the creation of a new geologic epoch, equivalent to the

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Scott, Alec (2004). "Shooting Stars: At a Time when the Genre has Hit an Influential High, a New Wave of Local Documentary Filmmakers is Producing some of the World's most Talked about Work".

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Thompson, Jane L (January 23, 1999). "Jennifer Baichwal: Documentary filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal's most recent film was the Genie-nominated Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles.: ".

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series, provide the frame for the film that explores the effects that rapid and recent industrialization has had on the environment in this manufacturing and economic superpower.

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and receiving her master's in arts in 1994. In 1995, Baichwal traveled with her family to India to scatter the ashes of their late father who had died from heart-related issues.

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Reid, Michael (April 18, 2001). "Portrait of a Journey: Documentary Chronicles Family's Pilgrimage to India to Release Father's Ashes".

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is a short television documentary produced in 1995 featuring 13 Canadian women exploring what they think of their own identity.

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Baichwal's production company has produced most of her films, along with other short films and documentaries including

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Varga, Darrell. "On True Meaning(s) and The Impossibility of Documentary in The Films of Jennifer Baichwal".

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and centers his experience witnessing his childhood friend succumb to a fatal lightning strike.

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is a documentary on the work of renowned and controversial American photographer

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Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film

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Lacey, Liam (April 19, 2008). "HOT DOCS LIFETIME-ACHIEVEMENT AWARD".

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Since their initial collaboration in 1995 and with the exception of

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in one of his expeditions to China. The photographs, taken for his

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The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources

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