Time and Water

Sara Dosa is such a special filmmaker, films like this keep the world alive. Abolish ICE, protect Iceland, it should be that simple

Ella Kemp

Time travel is real; nature is an archive. The future is made in the past, and the present is every molecule that came before and will be. Such a spectacular, spiritual, and staggering achievement.  Poetry and folklore take precedence over data in this climate change…

Katie Walsh

"A lyric in the rímur that so moved Magnason when he was younger insists that the only way to keep the verse alive is to put it into the mouths of children. The same can be said for nature conservation. The only way our planet will survive is if young people keep the fight.…

Marya E. Gates

"I have never written a memorial for a glacier — no one has,” laments the poet Andri Snær Magnason during Sara Dosa’s “Time and Water.” In 2019, Magnason was given the extraordinary task of writing an epitaph to Iceland’s Okjokull glacier, which was declared “dead” five…

SiddhantAdlakha

“I hope this message reaches you,” a disembodied voice says at the start of this deeply moving time capsule of a film. Boy, does it ever: it reaches you in your heart as well as your head. The soft, gentle voice belongs to Icelandic poet Andri Snaer Magnason, who tells us…

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“I want you to know glaciers as my grandparents did. As I do,” explains Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason. He and the floating ice fortresses that have given his country its name are the subjects of Sara Dosa’s poetic eco-elegy “Time and Water,” a work that hopes to…

Robert Daniels

well done beautifully constructed. the time warp of interweaving four generations’ worth of archival home video, woof, what a testament to the edit. i do wish it had teetered a bit more on the side of history and science, and less on the sentimentality of grandparents and…

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Sundance Movie #20: Sara Dosa's Fire of Love was one of my favorite movies four years ago, the first time I covered Sundance virtually, so I was excited for her follow-up film. Time and Water is similarly beautiful, a free-flowing remembrance of family and nature, and how…

Dan Murrell

There’s a recurring question that has, for decades, made the rounds as a decent piece of geography-based observational humour: Have you ever noticed that Iceland is mostly green, and Greenland is mostly ice? It resonates because it’s true—at least insofar as most of us, who…

Julian (Seeking Film)