"The film makes use of a treasure trove of archival materials, some of it supplied by Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason and his family, who lived a lot of their lives recording them and raising posterity alongside the glaciers. Standing still with these images and sounds (in front of the largest screen only, please) and catching snippets of this rocking family, becomes the audience's duty."
"When a filmmaker and her collaborators surface after months of being immersed in our planet's few theaters of timelessness, and what they are broken by is the departure of certain rocks, we glimpse how the miniature dances with the momentous. As Magnason stoically narrates over these shifted archives, he redraws the timelines of his family's generations. A certain fire meets uncertain ice. The rocks give way. Yet per the title of Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason's recent film, kin to Dosa's, it's the love that remains."
Time and Water uses archival family footage and sounds recorded alongside glaciers to chronicle dying, receding ice. The documentary pairs intimate household memories with sweeping images of ice transforming into water, folk songs tearing, and rocks resurfacing. Production collaboration includes National Geographic and Sandbox Films, and the archives include contributions from an Icelandic family deeply connected to their glacial neighbors. The work emphasizes emotional awe and helplessness in the face of geological change, redrawing generational timelines as glaciers retreat and landscapes shift. The film contrasts fire and ice, underscores loss, and ultimately foregrounds enduring love amid environmental decline.
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