Time and Water - coming in June

A cross posting from my Geography in/on Film blog.

A new trailer for Sara Dosa's documentary based on Andri Snær Magnason's book 'On Time and Water' - out at the start of June and I will plan to see this in the cinema. 

Sara's previous film: 'Fire of Love' about the Kraffts and their obsessions with volcanoes was Oscar nominated, and excellent.

She now moves from fire to ice....

This piece outlines some of the thinking behind the movie.

In Time and Water, renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. 

The film is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

"Time and Water weaves a story of family and our natural landscapes as an effort to make sense of our profoundly changing world,” said Dosa. 

“We were inspired by how memory is carried across time, through family archives and cultural myths, in the land and the ice itself. Our film reveals how human life is inseparable from nature, bringing the distant future into intimate focus and inviting audiences to imagine, act, and feel a love for a world beyond their own lifetimes.”

“When speaking about the climate crisis, a scientist once said to me: ‘People don’t understand data, they understand stories,'” said Magnason. 

“Sara is a masterful, poetic storyteller, who has brought my family’s stories and experiences into a larger conversation about time, memory and our relationship to the environment. The film is a love letter to glaciers and generations, an invitation to us all to consider how we listen to the world as it changes around us.”