Let It Come Down
Reccomend checking out "Ouled Bambara", also here on Fandor...great footage of Moroccan Gnawa music, a style Bowles made field recordings of.
Jennifer Baichwal
Filmography
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Payback
Margaret Atwood's visionary non-fiction work "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on "debt" in its various forms: societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal and, of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal...Watch Movie
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Act of God
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by...Watch Movie
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Manufactured Landscapes
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" (quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams), Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he...Watch Movie
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Let It Come Down
One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen. Set against the dramatic landscape of North Africa, the mystery of Bowles (famed author of "The...Watch Movie
Genres
- Documentary / Art / Performing Arts / Music
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / Commerce
- Documentary / Disaster / Natural Disaster
- Documentary / Environment
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / Literature
- Documentary / Philosophy
- Documentary / Political
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Independent / Documentary
- International / African / Moroccan
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / Canadian
- International / Asian / Bangladeshi
- International / Asian / Chinese
- LGBTQ / Documentary
Recent Reviews
Manufactured Landscapes
this film is a stunning education in the current state of mass industry. while the film remains basically apolitical, this seems to have been a utilitarian choice because its unlikely...
Let It Come Down
excellent
Let It Come Down
Patricians on the loose!
Let It Come Down
I loved it enough to say five stars. I don't know if I would have rated it that high if it were not about a writer that I find really...