Time and Water
A beautiful, moving film in which the famous Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason weaves his family’s story into the history of Iceland and the disappearance of its glaciers. A compelling documentary by Sara Dosa, the director of the Oscar-nominated Fire of Love.
“In the beginning, there was nothing, then fire and ice met. Out of the chaos, a cow rose up, made of ice and snow, and from her body emerged glaciers that carved out mountains and valleys. Her ice created a home… and ice became a home for all of us.” Andri Snær Magnason read this Icelandic creation myth to his children. Using his family archives as a starting point, he weaves it into a fantastic story that connects deep geological time with our own lives. His grandparents, Hulda and Árni, were glaciologists and spent their honeymoon on Iceland’s largest glacier. Amid indigo-blue ice caves, we learn that blue is the color of ancient ice: “The deeper the blue, the deeper the time.” Meanwhile, the ice is melting, and Andri bids farewell to Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier to disappear due to climate change.
