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

Recently I said my last words to my grandfather over the phone in a Jimmy John's parking lot. He couldn't talk, but when my mom relayed my message, she says he opened his eyes and smiled. He proposed to my grandma after about 2 weeks and they traveled the world together for…

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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

deeply depressing to see nature documentaries trend away from data-driven calls to action and towards the somber archiving of what is already inevitably lost

Jaxi

Piece of ice: exists Me: smiling with a tear in my eye

Jon Korn