Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Parramatta

2023

A system of waterways captured from aerial view

Program

Watermark

Name: Golden Age Cinema Series: Watermark
Start: 2023-09-20T08:20:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-20T10:00:00.000Z
Location: Golden Age Cinema

Ended 20 Sept 2023

Golden Age Cinema

Watermark is a 2012 Canadian feature documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about humanity’s relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. The film explores massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of Xiluodu Dam, one of the biggest arch dams in the world – six times the size of Hoover Dam. It visits the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Artists

Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer. She has made 10 feature documentaries which have aired internationally and won multiple awards nationally and internationally. She has been a director of the board of the Toronto International Film Festival since 2016.

Edward Burtynsky OC RCA is a Canadian photographer and artist. For four decades Burtynsky has explored the complex global intersection of industrial growth and environmental impact through photography. His colour photographs document landscapes as they are transformed by human industry and are included in the collections of more than 80 major museums around the world. He is the recipient of a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship (2020), an Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award by the World Photography Organization (2022) and the Pollution Probe Award (2022). Most recently he was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame (2022). Watermark is part of his five-year project, Water, focusing on the way water is used and managed.