Reflection: A Walk with Water (2021) Poster

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10/10
Taking Social Activism to it's Ecological Root
jwolfstone23 June 2021
This film begins, well, at the beginning, with how life came to be on this planet. And from this jumping-off point, REFLECTION, carries a tone of necessary grandiosity, as it addresses, finally in a film, some of the root causes (And solutions) to the dire socio-ecological situation we as humanity find ourselves.

And this film manages to communicate these difficult, sometimes complex, and essential truths, wrapped in a cloaked of immense beauty, with a meditative style, tugged along by the feeling of being on a true quest, as we accompany the director and an entourage as they Walk along an emblematic "water story" for our times.

This is one of the best nature issue documentaries I've seen and as an aspiring filmmaker, taught me a lot about the magic of this art.
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10/10
Re-envisioning our relationship with water
elliecoolbehr23 June 2021
I love this film! Emmett Brennan faces the climate crisis of our time and offers us a vital map of how to restore depleted ecosystems and desert places with water, acquirers, and living soil. There is much wisdom here, shared from First Nation People and specialists in conservation, land management, & restorative farming practices.

The film takes us on an odyssey into our relationship with water historically and helps us to envision new ways of working with water and her cycles through plants, trees, and sustainable farming.

This is a brilliant, hopeful, and moving film, artistically and beautifully rendered!
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10/10
Insightful and Life-giving!
mirigrace1 July 2021
This film is so much more than an environmental documentary, it is a love letter to water and a promise to help our rivers continue flowing and lakes filling. I cannot recommend it enough. It gave me hope and excitement for the solutions that already exist! The music for the film is beautiful and combined with the vibrant imagery makes true poetry.
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7/10
"High water risin', the shacks are slidin' down,Folks lose their possessions and folks are leaving town."
morrison-dylan-fan14 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Finding the 90 minute documentary about mushrooms The Mushroom Speaks (2021-also reviewed) to be far more interesting then I was expecting,I decided to take a look at the other documentary titles in the WOW Film Festival line-up, leading to me taking a moment to reflect.

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Walking along the miles of lakes in LA which have completely dried up, writer/director Emmett Brennan grows interviews/location footage and news reports with animation, with the brief uses of 2D animation being cleverly used by Brennan to go under the ground, and visualize what is being discussed.

Running across the dry land with hand-held shots, Brennan displays in an excellent unvarnished manner the impact of climate change on the land, with stark wide-shots capturing the damage that has been done to nature.

Whilst the subject offers the chance to lay out a doomsday scenario, Brennan instead searches for the signs of hope about turning the tide, with excellent, in-depth interviews with those using inventive ways to heal the reflection of the climate in the water.
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10/10
Thoughtful, hopeful, relevant, artful and solution focused
karenprosen22 June 2021
This film has stayed with me after watching days ago through Tribeca. What else is more important than water right now, and ever? I love that the film gives multiple examples of rural to urban solutions that are very attainable and replicable. We have all we need to solve the water crisis, and Emmett Brennan delivers the artistic inspiration to reorient ourselves towards progress and action. The music is beautiful, the cinematography is captivating, and the story telling is touching and real. Definitely watch the film!
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1/10
Trite
markintaos30 June 2021
Trite, tawdry, obvious, and worst of all boring. Arrogantly pretention masquerading as art and activism. A waste of precious time unless you enjoy watching people exhibit their poor sad blistered, battered feet. So wasteful to walk, alongside a freakin' pipe! Horses fools. A zero star review would be way too high. By the way, the " music" could send water to slumber.
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